(Ed. Note - Please at least click on the links and have a scan, you won't "get" this article if you don't. Thanks.)

I'm sitting here in my office this morning, frustrated because Costa Rica's only internet provider has some problem with their routers which makes web access and my email (also located here in CR) incredibly slow; some routers are down, there's obviously a bottleneck, and my email has to go to Miami and back before it gets to me. So I'm wondering if I couldn't do a better job myself. Since I can't look for international happenings on Linux and Free Software, I'm going to sit here and muse at the keyboard about SCO, geek culture and whatever else happens to run through my brain.

From my perspective here in Costa Rica, I agree with the IBM exec who said
that the SCO lawsuit looks silly. The only substantive thing that has
happened is that a few SCO execs and board members have made a bunch of
money on their stock and options holdings; most people still haven't even seen
the "offending code". In my non-legal opinion, the whole thing will probably blow over. An example what I mean by it blowing over is with another lawsuit from a couple of years ago (search for 'Broughton') in which one of the SCO execs (Reginald Broughton, at that time with Acrylis and Uniprise) was named as a defendant. The case was a:

"Class action complaint for damages. Defendants fabricated various methods
and documents to induce plaintiffs to invest in, fund and generally develop defendant Uniprise Inc. and its assets. Defendants then infiltrated and gained control of Uniprise Inc. by using some or all of plaintiffs