Hey, I’ve got an idea – let’s take a chill-pill for this SCO fever that’s gripped the world. Let’s all just pretend that SCO doesn’t exist. Don’t return phone calls from SCO. Ingore those letters from SCO’s legal people demanding payment for code they don’t own. Here’s my reasoning. Think back to your early school days when arguments typically degenerated into a round of shouting “did not!” and “did too!” Today’s version of this is SCO versus various open source advocates including Bruce Perens (who just updated his argument here, and even Linus Torvalds himself. SCO’s response to the claims that they’ve got it wrong, as summarized by Stephen OGrady, amounts to a “did too.” In short, SCO thinks Perens doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and Torvalds is a liar. It’s not the sort of performance you’d expect from a company determined to build loyalty in the open source community, and therefore a viable long term business. So why worry about them? The second point is an obvious one. Last time I looked, SCO’s stock was trading at $14.85. Various publications, including our sister mag Computerworld, have opined that what we are witnessing is essentially an elaborate get rich quick scheme. If this proves to be true in court, then conventional wisdom would suggest you sell your SCO stock while the company is riding the bubble.In summary, my gripe is that if we must wait years before for this case is resolved in court, SCO should at least keep us entertained with bullet-proof arguments and clever retorts. If we assume that’s not going to happen, we could try ignoring them. And if we’re patient for long enough perhaps they might go away.Update to this post: MontaVista Software holds the same view. Technology Industry