On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:29:36PM -0700, Randall Shimizu wrote:
> The thing that get's me is that SCO was unwilling to
> back up their claims. In recent years I have noticed
> that many people make accusations and don't have the
> guts to support them. This type of conduct is really
> despicable and cowardice to say the very
> least.......!!
>
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>
Here's what I suspect. There is a thing in psychiatry called "folie a
deux" in which a psychopathology (or delusion structure) is shared by
two people whose delusions support each other. Alone they would each
probably gravitate more to reality, but together they go crazy.
I've seen that happen in businesses and also (alas) in government. A
really stupid idea is put forward ("They'll buy from us because we're
HP/MicroPro/Osborne" or "we can bring democracy to the Middle East").
Nobody dares challenge it because a Big Cheese likes it. It gets in an
echo chamber. Pretty soon, people who should know better halfway believe
it. People who see an emperor without clothes are moved along and
marginalized.
So I think the decision makers at SCO probably really thought they had a
case -- maybe even a slam-dunk -- when they first filed. How they must
have felt as if the walls were closing in as the case progressed and
they found that they had nothing but sand.
--
Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
I told them, 'I don't need money.' I told them, 'The truth is that you
took my brother, you tortured him, and you killed him, although he was
disabled and old.'
- Iraqi Sadoon Awad on why he declined a US Army offer of
$10,000 for the death of his brother
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