Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted

twitter writes "The defeat of SCO's infamous copyright attack has Forbes wondering if a GNU/Linux boom is upon us. They discuss how this will benefit Novel, IBM, Chrysler, AutoZone and Red Hat. 'The SCO Group frightened potential business users away from Linux with lawsuits demanding billions in royalties. But the litigious company's claims were shot down in a ruling that will likely boost uptake of the operating system.'"

lol

[thatskinnyguy]

*Companies formerly threatened by SCO peek out from their spider holes*

"Is it safe to use Linux now?", they say timidly.

Re:lol

[CaymanIslandCarpedie]

Does this mean 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop? ;-)

FTA

[grub]

The SCO Group did not return a call seeking comment on Monday.

Maybe their phones were disconnected for non-payment?

Re:FTA

[shadowspar]

Either that, or there are no employees left there to answer them.

Re:Official response from SCO

[Salo2112]

That sure is a lot of verbiage to say "Novell put sand in the KY and widened our hineys."

Re:Joe User's association

[flyingfsck]

Well, long ago, Microsoft wrote a Unix system called Xenix. They sold it to SCO, who renamed it Netware.

Re:lol

[Yvanhoe]

Yes, 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop. Unfortunately, it will also be the year of the laptop...

Re:lol

[spun]

The Linux Desktop: yesterday, today and tomorrow's technology of tomorrow!

Richard Stallman, your phone's ringing

[john-da-luthrun]

From TFA:

Unix was developed by the old American Telephone & Telegraph. The company allowed the system to be copied, leading to multiple versions, some of which effectively leaked into the public domain. In the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds, then a college student in Helsinki, wrote a version of the program from scratch that he called Linux. Torvalds posted Linux on the Internet, allowing others to copy and improve upon it. The sytem became popular for use on servers as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows.

Yup, that's right, ol' Linus just sat down and cloned the entire Unix operating system from scratch. On his own. With no antecedents.