Neither Novell, nor Microsoft (Score 5, Insightful)

There is absolutely zero upside for Novell in buying SCOX. And absolutely zero downside for not buying SCOX. SCOX is shooting blanks (header files????) on the legal front. And Novell already has linux street cred for 1. buying SuSE, 2. Sending a "STFU" letter to SCOX re the IBM suit and 3. pretty much shutting SCOX down in the "slander of title" suit.

You don't get street cred for rewarding extortion. Look at where SCOX was before they pulled this BS. About a buck a share. And SCOX has diluted shareholder value (in other words, printed and sold more stock) since then. Let's see: option 1. Pay more than 4x the original value of the company for an extortion threat or 2. let SCOX die a slow, painful and public death for being idiots. Anyone thinking of getting good PR by preventing this company from publicly bleeding to death from its self inflicted gut-shot is stupid. Paying off extortionists is *always* bad PR.

-Blaine