Patent Troll SCO Forced to Pay $2.54 Million to Novell

Remember SCO ? Yeah, me neither. But the company that once made a name for itself by existing solely to sue people now owes it's biggest victim, Novell, $2.54 million plus interest . The story breaks down like this: SCO believed that Novell and other companies who used Linux were actually using UNIX SVRX source code illegally inside the Linux kernel. After independently verifying the code, SCO discovered that Linux was free of SRVX code and that in fact Novell owned the rights to SRVX. Bloops!