Comment by azalemeth

Genuine question: what was SCO good for? I'm young enough that literally the only reason I've ever heard of them is for their ill-guided, failed litigation attempts. I've heard a lot of (mostly good) things 'bout the BSDs, HP-UX / SunOS / NeXT / AIX etc, and even driven Irix and Solaris myself. But SCO is never mentioned and I've literally never met someone who used (uses?) it. Yet somehow...they live on, albeit in a lawyerly state of death. What's the story?