“The case and its successors ended in 2021, with a settlement that saw litigants agree to end the matter without IBM admitting fault. But by then, SCO had sold its software to a biz called Xinuos that decided to fight on.”
SCO sued IBM over Unix code in 2003. It lost, went bankrupt, and settled in 2021. Now Xinuos, which bought the corpse, is back in court arguing it still owns the grievance. Twenty-three years of lawyers billing hours over code nobody has wanted since the Bush administration.