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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
