How SCO helped Linux
By drawing so much attention to Linux, and failing so spectacularly to find any legal flaw in it, SCO has actually helped Linux's business acceptance.
First, it reunified the Linux community and businesses against a common enemy. Red Hat and SUSE, and the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, may not have become bosom buddies, but everyone could agree that SCO was threatening everyone.
Second, and perhaps even more important, Linux was once more in the public spotlight. Yes, Linux was slowly, but surely, devouring the x86 Unix market, but frankly few business people cared about it. When they thought about the x86 server market, they debated Windows 2003 vs. 2000. They asked if there was any hope left for NetWare. Unix or Linux on x86? Only die-hard Unix/Linux techies cared. The CTO might give a hoot, but the CIO and the CFO? Forget about it.
But, when SCO made it a fight, when SCO made those outrageous claims against IBM and Linux, suddenly everyone started paying attention to Linux.
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