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Originally Posted by sycamore
IBM offered to pull the proprietary pieces out, but SCO wouldn't have it. What could have been solved fairly easily has become a costly battle and may spell the end of SCO.
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If IBM only removed 'offending' code, then SCO was still done - bankrupt. SCO was doing the only thing they could to survive. You cannot fault them for it. They paid big bucks for Unix. They were responsible to so many stockholders. SCO was only doing what was necessary to survive.
Now if you can provide them with another answer, what would that be? Remember one of the most fundamental requirements of the executives - their responsibility to stockholders: survive. The only way one can legitimately attack SCO: if they had another option and did not take it. SCO had no choice. SCO had to survive. It is management’s obligation to stockholders.
One should have much sympathy for SCO. They got caught in a no-win situation. Shame. Because when they bought Unix, they were only trying to save a product stifled and almost destroyed by AT&T MBAs.