Comments on: SCOX down 71%. I’m long Linux. http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/08/13/scox-down-71-im-long-linux/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Alex Beamish http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/08/13/scox-down-71-im-long-linux/#comment-72921 Alex Beamish Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:58:22 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/08/13/scox-down-71-im-long-linux/#comment-72921 This market move has been four and a half years in coming, and punishes SCO for launching a lawsuit that was without merit from the start. SCO obviously didn't count on the very large Linux community rallying behind Groklaw [1] (for one) and helping dig up all kinds of prior art. Groklaw has been called an 'anti-SCO' site -- not completely accurately -- it's actually a 'pro-truth' site. SCO's case depended on proving two points: 1. that it owned UNIX; and 2. that there were 'millions of lines of UNIX' in Linux. The court has ruled against the first point, and SCO has yet to prove that anything in Linux actually came from UNIX, which is the second point. 1. http://www.groklaw.net/ This market move has been four and a half years in coming, and punishes SCO for launching a lawsuit that was without merit from the start. SCO obviously didn’t count on the very large Linux community rallying behind Groklaw [1] (for one) and helping dig up all kinds of prior art. Groklaw has been called an ‘anti-SCO’ site — not completely accurately — it’s actually a ‘pro-truth’ site.

SCO’s case depended on proving two points: 1. that it owned UNIX; and 2. that there were ‘millions of lines of UNIX’ in Linux. The court has ruled against the first point, and SCO has yet to prove that anything in Linux actually came from UNIX, which is the second point.

1. http://www.groklaw.net/

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