You may know SCO (but probably won’t) as the company that tried to sue some of the major Linux vendors accusing them of copyright infringement based on it’s ownership of the UNIX source code copyright. It assumed that Linux contained UNIX source code, and that it owned the copyright for it – neither of which turned out to be true. It was p0wned in the courts (mostly thanks to the Novell case in which ownership of UNIX source code was found to be with Novell), hounded by Linux fanboi’s and eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week to the cheers of, well, pretty much everyone except SCO. Anyway, the point of all this is that there’s been some rather imaginative and amusing headlines on tech and IT news sites and blogs as a result, which I’d like to feature here:
Paul McNamara, Network World: “SCO files Chapter 11, threatens business as usual”
Egan Orion, The Inquirer: “SCO files Chapter 11 bankruptcy – Seeks court protection from its own lawsuits”
And my personal favourite,
John Paczkowski, All Things Digital: “Chapter 11, in Which SCO Finally Gets What It Deserves”