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02-23-2004, 06:10 AM
It is definitly worth reading as it is well explained & quite unbiased.
What Did SCO Buy ? (http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/What_did_SCO_buy.html)
On the other hand, if you're even slightly familiar with the role that intellectual property plays in the computer industry, you can't help but be dogged by this question: Why on Earth would any company pay more than $100 million for a technology --as the SCO Group's ancestry did for Unix--if it knew the technology could be opened to the kind of cloning that could irrevocably jeopardize the potential return on that $100 million investment? The SCO Group might as well have bought the Brooklyn Bridge and tried to charge tolls.
What Did SCO Buy ? (http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/What_did_SCO_buy.html)
On the other hand, if you're even slightly familiar with the role that intellectual property plays in the computer industry, you can't help but be dogged by this question: Why on Earth would any company pay more than $100 million for a technology --as the SCO Group's ancestry did for Unix--if it knew the technology could be opened to the kind of cloning that could irrevocably jeopardize the potential return on that $100 million investment? The SCO Group might as well have bought the Brooklyn Bridge and tried to charge tolls.
