Speculation is rife that a lawsuit by an eFax company against competitors for using Asterisk could be related to SCO and all the nonsense surrounding it:
Now, Groklaw is speculating about the extent to which the move could be a general patent attack on free software. The reason for this is a close connection between the SCO Group and j2. Among the supporters of the software company, which has been in a heated dispute over intellectual property in Linux components, particularly with IBM, for a long time, is the investment firm Krevlin Advisors. It is also a major shareholder in j2.
But even if there's nothing to the rumors, the whole thing will certainly be idiotic and annoying again - and yet another proof that software patents and business method patents are utter nonsense. In any case, Asterisk (essentially a telephone system implemented in software) could soon become another battleground - if only because it may appear as a threat to one or another manufacturer of smaller telephone systems. And the market for telephone systems is, after all, characterized by very strange sales strategies and even stranger contractual situations (not without reason, telephone system maintenance contracts are occasionally declared invalid for violating good morals).