SCO's Openserver 6

As everyone in the Linux world knows, SCO has become something of an anti-Christ in the open source community, this despite their recent protestations that they don't have a problem with the open source community - like Microsoft claiming the same thing.

I ran across an interesting post to the Slashdot article "SCO Includes OS Products in OpenServer 6." The response, by Slashdot user WindBourne (631190), was as follows:

MySql has the abilty to deliver a death knell to them. They are under a dual license (GPL and Commercial). SCO has to accept the GPL for it to be valid. Since they clearly do not do so, then the only license available to them is the commercial one. Therefore they MUST start paying mysql the approiate money. It will probably run in the millions.

Now some users have pointed out that SCO doesn't have to accept the GPL as valid, however, WindBourne does seem to have a point about the dual license. SCO should be paying to include MySQL as a part of its server offering.

SCO is very likely on its last legs anyway, but this most recent development could be the last nail in the SCO coffin.