On Wednesday 10 March 2004 07:32 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 08:57 am, Lanman wrote: > > Gee! What a total surprise this is! Grin! I'm pretty sure that someone on > > this list, and others in a variety of publications suggested that SCO > > would change from being a Unix/Linux solutions provider to a company > > specializing in litigation. > > <snipped> > > > Personally, I am so fed up with this nonsense that I'm totally bored with > > SCO. If they ever get their ducks in a row and show the world that > > they've actually been cheated, I'll pay attention, but until then I wish > > they'd just shut up and go away. > > > > Hey Darl - Get a life and give it a rest will ya? Enough already! > > Well, you just hit on the entire point of this matter. SCO was looking to > get bought out in order to salvage some of what they invested in a dying > company. First, they expected that the mere threat of a lawsuit would > convince IBM to go ahead and buy them out. Once that didn't happen, they > realized that they would need to make as big a pain as possible for every > person in order to increase the pressure to go ahead with a buyout. > > Ultimately, I think that they missed the boat on this one. I suspect that > IBM and assorted other companies actually want to litigate this in order to > set an example for any other company that would come up with the same > bright idea. That means that the bigger a fool that SCO makes of itself > for making all and sundry claims, the more likely IBM and co are to pursue > the case to the final legal conclusion. > > The one bright spot about all of this is that the US is rapidly providing a > shining example of why our IP and copyright models are antiquated and no > longer serving their original purpose. This makes it more likely that > other countries will hopefully form their own systems rather than try to > model them after the US. At least, that is the one hopeful thing that I > have been able to salvage from the entire SCO freakshow. I wonder if being thought of as a fool bothers that bunch?Let's faceit nobody will ever hire the lawyers again for anything having shown so little judgement. ( of course this may be whySCO presists because they know that this will be thier last score)
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