Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn’t know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela “PJ” Jones and her Website Groklaw, executives who wanted to know what was really what with SCO’s multitude of lawsuits soon learned of the FUD behind SCO’s claims. SCO and its silent backer Microsoft hope for profits and slowing down Linux’s corporate success would come to nothing, and SCO ended up in bankruptcy.
Now, in late May 2013, SCO’s last, dying twitches continue in the courts and Groklaw continues to cover technology related intellectual property (IP) legal issues. Outside of the courtroom, Linux has become a completely mainstream technology, and Microsoft, thanks to its Android-related patent claims, actually profits greatly from Linux.