SCO Group, the company behind a number of lawsuits relating Linux, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy, Wired.com reported yesterday. SCO Group already filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2007. SCO Group, originally known as Caldera, acquired assets of a UNIX vendor called Santa Cruz Operations in 2000. Since 2003, the outfit has sued several companies — notably IBM, Novell and Red Hat — claiming that these companies offer Linux distributions that infringe SCO Group’s Unix related copyrights. SCO Group has had little success in court. In 2010, courts ruled in Novell's favor and decided that the rights to Unix never transferred to SCO. Nonetheless, the company moved to reopen the case against IBM again late last year.
