For those of us in the *nix space the whole SCO debacle has been going on for years. They claimed that they bought what was UNIX (UNIX actually does not actually exists as a technology really anymore and is more of a family of products now) and that all sorts of linux distributions stole code from it and were therefore violating copyright infringements. They then seemed to put all of their energy and money into suing distributions of (usually) free.

While I can see where they are comming from that it was their code but then they started to sue everyone they could which is not a very friendly action towards the open source community and really angered a lot of people.

In a supprising turn of events it turns out that Novell actually owns the UNIX copyrights so SCOs lawsuits (which it won some big money) are null and void meaning they have to refund all the money they weaseled out of people (in my opinion). So in a not so supprising turn of the SCOtanic they have filed for bankrupcy protection.

Novell says they will not sue people for using code that is 15 years old and really wants to encourage the Linux community.