from an sco press release today

[burns]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:13, dep wrote:
> i pretty much agree with you, but what i thought was significant was a 
> company, in court, saying that the gpl won't hold up. this is what 
> we've been waiting for and to some extent feared (court is always a 
> crap shoot, usually with a bunch of highly paid guys shooting nothing 
> but) for some time. it cranks up the stakes considerably -- a *whole 
> lot* is going to be riding on this particular roll of the dice. that 
> having been said, i have every confidence in the ability of david boies 
> to do for sco what he did for algore.

Interesting that IBM's market cap is almost the same as that of SCO
*except in Billions instead of millions*! There is no doubt that this is
getting up the nose of the folks in Big Blue, big time. They could
easily buy SCO with IBM lunch money, but at this point I'm pretty
certain they don't want to give SCO the satisfaction. Instead they
probably plan to drive them into the ground by litigating them all the
way down into a Chapter 11. Good, they deserve it, the slime balls.

IBM has basically bet the farm on Linux, they cannot afford to lose and
will not allow Linux or Open Source to be emperilled by the Lunatics
from Lindon.

You know, it's impossible to see what's going on, understanding what has
also probably put things in motion behind the scenes, and stay neutral.
-- 
burns