And nothing of value was lost. That loser (no really, he lost every case) set back the whole industry by several years when he tried to poison the reputation o

And nothing of value was lost. That loser (no really, he lost every case) set back the whole industry by several years when he tried to poison the reputation of Linux and Free Software. I shudder to imagine my career arc if he’d succeeded in destroying it. The most delicious part of the whole case was when Novell stepped in and mooted it by showing that they never actually sold their software to SCO, just the licensing rights. Youngsters here, this is also one of the reason so many of us absolutely detest Microsoft. They used SCO to try and destroy open source software legally instead of through offering better products: https://practical-tech.com/2003/05/21/cyber-cynic-the-microsoft-sco-connection/ https://practical-tech.com/2003/05/21/cyber-cynic-the-micros... And there there was reporter Dan Lyons who was all-in supporting SCO and telling the world why Linux was going to come out the loser. Oopsie! He later claimed he was just too bad at his job to understand the situation (https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-te...) To this day I close an article with his byline, assuming it’s also completely wrong.