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. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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