How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw has a worthwhile bit of SCO history in the form of a declaration from Robert Marsh, the guy who bought a big SCOsource license for EV1Servers.net in 2004. "Mr. Langer or others representing SCO told me that a lawsuit against EV1 or our customers could result in a temporary restraining order or an injunction mandating an immediate shut-down of EV1Server.net's Linux servers. I take great pride in the consistency and reliability of our hosting infrastructure, qualities for which EV1Servers.net are well-known in the industry. A shut-down, or even the possibility of one, would have been severely damaging to our hosting business. I felt pressure and urgency to avoid that outcome."

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How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 2:04 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

PJ wrote:

> "SCO specifically mentioned that Forbes and Bloomberg would be
> very interested in talking to him if he signed. Blech."

ROFL!

How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 4:19 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Memo to executives everywhere: Before you promise to pay anyone $800,000 to avoid a lawsuit, spend at least $80,000 on legal research. It's not clear that this guy even called a lawyer.

Bruce

How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 19:14 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

The Groklaw article says he consulted a lawyer. It also says he took a month or two to think about it and negotiated changes in the license. And those changes show he was well aware of the controversy over whether there was anything to buy.

How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 8:53 UTC (Wed) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

The way to get you money back

People out there that have been connec by the SCO scammers retrebution is closing fast get your wreking balls out and go visit head office a hole in the wall is a good access point to reclaim goods to repay the con jobs of SCO over the past few years ..

PS to the wet nappies out there if tou dont like what you read then it's quite simple DONT FRIKKIN READ IT ....

Pete

How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 20:10 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

What huh? Are you preemptively flaming anyone who disagrees with you?
So confused.

How the EV1 Deal Went Down (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 19, 2006 20:20 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

As far as I can gather, petegn believes that his idiocy is everyone else's responsibility, rather than his own. (Certainly he doesn't appear to be able to help or control himself, but that's not quite the same thing.)