SCO loses its case against IBM and goes bankrupt. SCO stockholders are pulling their hair and suing SCO executives. SCO executives hung themselves by their balls.
This is at the heart of this as far as I'm concerned. SCO was slowly going down the tubes the last couple of years. With the adoption of Linux over Unix and the inablitity of SCO to capitalize in the Linux market it was (is) apparent that SCO was one of the weakest providers in this market space. They sold of key components of their wares for no other reason than to return capitlal to their investors. That done they still had a limp and ineffective market plan and no real growth prospects for their remaining product and service lines. Furthermore, as part of any prudent market statements (e.g. Q10 reports) most companies identify risks for no other reason than to protect the execs and the board from torts and claims of misfeasance (poor management) from their shareholders from accusation of "non-disclosure" of any said potential risk that may come to fruitition. In otherwords, SCO was sinking, probably has been hyping it's share holders and constituencies on the hopes of turning around their failing business. When it became evident this wasn't likely McBride and company went for the all too obvious route of using the the courts, torts, and claims of contract and/or patent violations to inject more money into to the shareholders earnings column. This is at the bottom line, at least in my eyes. They are doing a fairly good job of deflecting and distracting the market from this by redirecting everyones attention to the contrived controversy in order to obfiscate the light of day from the real controversy... That being SCO was headed for insolvency and management is desperate to avoid taking responsiblity for driving the business into the ground and finding themselves in court at the wrong end of a shareholder lawsuit. Cheers, Curtis.