SCO files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 15 September 2007
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On friday afternoon, both SCO Group and its subsidiary SCO Operations, Inc. filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

The bankruptcy filing canceled the SCO v. Novell trial that had been scheduled to begin Monday in the courtroom of US District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball. It automatically stayed that lawsuit and all of SCO's other pending litigation with IBM, Autozone and Red Hat.

SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM in March 2003 seeking $1 billion in damages, later raised to $5 billion, over various allegations related to IBM's support of Linux.

Along the way, SCO also sued Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone, former customers of its predecessor in interest Santa Cruz Operation. The Daimler-Chrysler case was quickly dismissed, but the Autozone case is still unresolved.

Some months after it had sued IBM, SCO apparently woke up to the fact that it didn't have written conveyances from Novell for the copyrights to UNIX SVRX. It attempted to obtain those from Novell but was rebuffed. So, in January 2004, SCO also sued Novell for alleged slander of title over the copyrights to the UNIX SVRX operating system.

I'd call that cowardice; first sueing everone and when things begin turn around, weasling your way out if it instead of facing what's coming to you. It's not like SCO is the poor innocent bystander here: they started all this.