SCO fizzles

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Richard Thompson:

[deletia]

> An insanity defense makes a certain amount of sense.  Perhaps, however,
> the recent lunatic ravings of Darl McBride to the SCO forum members that
> IBM is orchestrating the open source response to the SCO -v- IBM suit
> may have a less obvious purpose - a first strike to divert attention
> away from the puppeteers at Microsoft who are pulling SCO's strings,
> i.e. lie first, lie loud, lie often and repeatedly, and chances are good
> - well, you get the picture.  Out of curiosity, except for a few reports
> of cash infusions for useless licenses and outdated tech, there seems to
> have been a fair amount of silence on the MS/SCO connection.  Any ideas
> why?

Very little solid evidence on which to base an article. Suspicions
are strong but, just yet, there's nothing there there. With the spotlight
of anti-trust shining on them, Microsoft must move cautiously. They
will undoubtedly make a misstep sooner or later.

Kurt
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