When I dialed into our editorial news meeting this morning, my colleague Alex Handy informed me about a United States Court of Appeals overturning of a U.S. District Court ruling that declared Novell the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. I decided to blog about it after my work was filed, but rather than say the obvious, I'll make an offbeat comparison. SCO is like the green gas in "The Return of the Living Dead."
The green gas was an unstoppable menace. When the zombies in the movie were dismembered and disposed of in a crematorium, the ensuing smoke contained an ominous green gas that triggered rainfall, contaminating the groundwater with a chemical that reanimated corpses that were buried in a nearby graveyard. The cycle began again when the U.S. military followed its zombie protocol and nuked the city that was besieged by the undead.
SCO has once again morphed into that green gas, and its lawyers' and their machinations are the zombies.