# Snowed by SCO Dan Lyons of Forbes.com [admits he was wrong about SCO][1]. If only we could get all journalists to be this honest... > The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the > conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I > got it wrong. The nerds got it right. SCO is road kill. Its > lawsuit long ago ceased to represent any threat to Linux. That > operating system has become far too successful to be > dislodged. Someday soon the SCO lawsuits will go away, and I will > never have to write another article about SCO ever again. I can't > wait. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080219080038/http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html .