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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
"You made a bad investment."
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No court would accept that if management made no effort to protect the company's only asset. Every reasonable jury would have ruled 100% against SCO management if it had just given up.
Besides, the resulting lawsuits were necessary to establish the legality of a whole new business model. Sooner or later, someone was going to have to sue - as SCO did - to establish the legal credibility of that freeware Linux business model.
So who gets sued? Management and BoDs (individuals) - or business sues business. The later lawsuites were far more productive for America because it confirmed the integrity of the Linux business model.
Again, one can only have sympathy for SCO stockholders who did nothing wrong - were even using a well established and proven business model. What other industry was completely overturned by something so simple as Linux? None that I can think of.
Nobody can fault a company for doing what all companies and managements are required to do - survive. That requirement is a benchmark of all businesses. Even employees lives must be destroyed if necessary (ie firings) because even employees are secondary to that #1 principle - survive. SCO simply had little if any other options.