The consequences of the Novell ./. SCO ruling ...

There is some discussion in the media about the consequences of the ruling in the Novell vs. SCO lawsuit. Some media outlets like Inquirer think this may pose a problem. I think, this reports are the usual “only bad news are good news”. IMHO nothing like that will happen. Opensolaris is an established member of the open source community. Novell has a business relying on open source. Trying to use this copyright to take out a competitor or trying got get a large heap of money would totally ruin a reputation in a core market that already got some scars by the Microsoft/Novell deal. This would be basically a second edition of the SCO/IBM lawsuit … and you know what happened to the unix business of SCO. And besides of this … normal companies don´t sue each other, as this can lead to a mutually assured destruction thing too fast … BTW: In my personal opinion the industry should end this topic for one and all times and put the old unix source code into the public domain …