Well, court rewards and copyright start with financial damages, and commercial Unix has those from Linux. So SCO probably just figured that they had a decent reward coming, and the payout in the other direction would be pretty much limited to a stern "thanks for removing the offending code, and don't do that again."

Of course, that did pretty much hinge on them having some evidence... So much for that.

-Billy

protecting a space elevator is really simple to solve

, except for the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per day for that aircraft carrier, not including support ships. I wouldn't just assume that the revenues would easily pay for it - we're talking about a huge up-front investment (during construction) to recover.