On Friday 07 March 2003 12:05 pm, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote: > So our wacky, local (lindon utah) linux company is suing IBM in what I can > only interpret as a very silly lawsuit. Besides simply praticing barratry > (being excessively litigious), why make such a scene? > > ideas? A) desperation for more cash. the news.com article on this topic mentions a company whose income from sales is $10m annually. From litigation it's $375m. B) Disbelief in their own product. The news.com article again, quotes a rep of SCO as mentioning how there was absolutely no way linux could have gotten as good as it did, as fast as it did without IBM copying code from Unix to Linux. (NOTE *I* dont' believe that.. it's sco... dont' flame me :) ) C) It works for Microsoft. D) For a company their size, making name changes and diversification as much as they have (UnitedLinux, Caldera -> SCO et al) they really need the publicity, and a little company taking on the biggest of them all, get's them press, and make people who dont' know much see IBM as a bully for stealing the 'genious' that these little SCO guys must have developed. And if these little guys are so smart, we should use their stuff too.
-- --Jayce^
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