idiocy

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:35:29PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 03/06/03 20:29, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:11:20PM -0500, dep wrote:
>>>Unix developer The SCO Group has filed a law suit against IBM, 
>>>charging it with misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair 
>>>competition and other illegal actions related to IBM's Linux 
>>>business. The suit seeks at least US$1 billion in damages.
>> 
>> Sounds to me like the flea running up the elephant's leg with rape on his
>> mind.  Perhaps SCO's management thinks that IBM will pay them off just for
>> the nuisance value, but my guess is that SCO is committing corporate
>> suicide.  I wonder if SCO would be pursuing this if IBM was still selling
>> their Linux systems.
>> 
>> IBM is not stranger to law suits, and has far greater resources to fight
>> this than SCO has to pursue the suit.
>> 
>> The lawyer-slime will of course benefit from this on both sides.
>
>Well, SCO does have a history of suing the big boys.  Remember the 
>Lineo/Caldera/SCO lawsuit brought against M$ a few years back?

That lawsuit predated the Caldera purchase of SCO.  They also
were on very solid ground there with proof of M$'s purposely
putting code in their software to detect DR-DOS and produce bogus
warning messages or not run at all.

Bill
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