Reading through some of the paperwork on this suit, and it might be the single most boneheaded attempt at legal maneuvering I have ever seen. Wardell fuck himself over at every single opportunity and basically forces a situation where SCO has to be taken down.
So first, Brad spends years attempting to purchase a license for copyrighted material from SC1 and 2, and repeatedly acknowledges that copyright publicly and privately.
After growing frustrated with Fred and Paul's refusal to offer said license, he then decides he already owns it based on a contract that expired in 2001, 12 years before he owned the rights to anything. This does not appear to be based on anything other than the fact that Wardell wishes it to be so.
He then files a lawsuit against Fred and Paul asserting this copyright that he clearly does not have. Fred and Paul offer a settlement that would allow Stardock to make their game as long as they steer clear of classic SC IP. Brad rejects the settlement and declares his intent to incorporate said IP onto SCO, essentially putting his product in the crosshairs as a copyright violation pending the outcome of the suit, for no fucking reason.
This essentially forces Fred and Paul to issue DMCA takedowns to defend their rights, as defending one's IP when contested is an important part of IP law. Brad files for a motion to prevent this during litigation but is denied for all of the aforementioned reasons of his own damn making.
After this he throws a pit party for himself claiming that SCO is just a spiritual successor and doesn't contain any classic SC IP, completely ignoring that hei the one who insisted it did in a goddamn court of law, and that he is the Plaintiff in this lawsuit not the defnedant.
The whole thing is just delusional and psychotic. I've never seen anything like it.