idiocy

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
>  From http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/07/1728239.shtml?tid=3
> "So why is SCO doing this? [Bruce] Perens says they want to get bought -
> but get this - by IBM itself. Perens says that SCO, AKA Caldera, has
> always been run by investment firms. "This is [the current investment
> firm?s] exit strategy," he says. "IBM can buy them just to shut them up
> and finally own all of the Unix stuff.
>
> "IBM doesn?t have to settle with a company this small. They can just eat
> them."
>
> Perens doesn?t believe SCO realistically thinks it has a chance of
> winning this lawsuit. "In filing this suit they have put a gun to the
> head of their own software business and pulled the trigger. No one in
> the Linux world will ever recommend them for anything again, and other
> people will look at this and say 'no, this too nutty, I don?t trust
> these guys.'""

that actually makes a lot of sense.  of course if IBM did buy SCO they
would surely tear them apart and throw away the pieces as a warning to any
other little shit company that thought it could take on big blue &
benefit.

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