A bit of poetic justice, perhaps?
-- SCO Goes After DaimlerChrysler By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols March 3, 2004
Only hours after The SCO Group Inc. opened a lawsuit against AutoZone Inc. in a Nevada courtroom, SCO sued DaimlerChrysler AG in a Michigan state court for Unix contract violations and Linux copyright issues.
Darl McBride, SCO's CEO said on Wednesday that SCO will enforce its legal contract and copyright rights in the United States and around the world. According to McBride, DaimlerChrysler is a licensee of Unix System V source code and the company had refused SCO's request to certify that the source code was protected so that none of it could have been stolen away into Linux. This refusal resulted in today's legal action.
McBride said that "SCO had alerted DaimlerChrysler in December of last year that they needed to certify their code but DaimlerChrysler did not respond." Further, for SCO the action was simply a matter of "protecting its contract and copyright rights," he said, adding that DaimlerChrysler was only one of many companies that SCO demanded Unix source code certification from.