I found this exchange revealing. Jeremy Allison: Yes, or IBM or Google, but really, to be honest, they really haven't... all of the big guys, all of the firms, all of the corporations, essentially they... I'll give you an example: I was sat in... before this case was started, I was sat in an Indian restaurant in Cupertino, California with one of Sun's lawyers who was basically telling me about the case, asking me to help, and saying "We..." and I turned to him and I said -- because this was just after the DOJ case when they essentially snatched defeat from the jaws of victory -- and I said to him, "Are you really going to see this through? Because if you bail out on this halfway through, then essentially, it will be a massive disappointment, you will have just let everybody down, it'd be a waste of time. Is Scott McNealy really going to see this through?". He said "Oh, absolutely, it's a point of principle for Scott, blah blah blah blah". Which just goes to show you, you never ever believe... (laughter) So I think it was like two or three years later when Sun basically took two billion dollars to go away. I sent him an email saying "Uh, don't you remember that conversation we had that...?" I never got a reply. (laughter) I just never got a reply.
Sean Daly: Everything after the third martini, it doesn't count. Well $ 2 Billion is a fair amount of change :) I would probably go away for less. BobLQ On 9/21/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..after the EU Commission court decision > > Want to meet four men who dared to fight MS -- and won? > Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 02:09 AM EDT > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070919214307459 > > I liked the quote > ..it's been a lot of fun. For a strange definition of fun. > > Regards, > ..jim > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
