interesting...wait 'n watch. i do agree with reengineering aspect..that is very much a need now for them to campaign for...but the question not of future...there is plenty of time to take care of that...the question here is of settlement --will SCO get $1B in court or something else when settled outside....it is this aspect ...that is of interest.........US software people are loosing many to each other...is a fun world is watching all over! this is another non-productive energy...for US patent law machinery---it is just that that money is passing hands ...quite frequently...for not so good reasons!

in the end i will say...that just because it is open source...and its cheaper for people....doesn;t give them free will to copy it freely! this is surely not healthy for competition...and if patent laws are going to exist...they are going to be against open source most of the time....else otherwise it will rub over other industries too .....and the underlying fundamentals of patent laws can never be eliminated by patent law itself....so best of luck IBM...

I think SCO just wants money, and it sucks!! They are being totally evil to IBM. I think those bastards should just shutup!!

SCO is behaving just like Microsoft, greedy and vain.