SCO didn't have a choice about getting distracted by Novell. When they made
their claims against IBM, Novell piped up with "Hold it, we own all that
code and SCO's just our agent for collecting license payments. They don't have
any legal right to be making the claims they're making.". SCO pretty much had to
dispute that, if they didn't then their case evaporated. And that's when it
started to unravel, because SCO was bluffing with queen-high garbage in their
hand while their opponents had three of a kind showing and hole cards yet to
show.
It actually started to unravel earlier when SCO went into the whole
deal assuming it didn't matter how good a case they had, IBM and the others
would settle because it was cheaper than litigating, and it turned out IBM
didn't use the same arithmetic in tallying up the costs. McBride should've
folded the moment IBM raised, cut his losses and gotten out. He got target
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