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Boies' Take (Forbes)

[Posted May 29, 2003 by corbet]

Forbes talks with David Boies - SCO's lawyer. "Somehow, everyone thinks SCO is in it for the money and out to thwart Linux. In Boies' eyes, it's hard to see how anyone could jump to that conclusion. The $1 billion in damages and future royalties SCO is seeking won't put a mere dent in the Linux movement: 'That's a cost that gets lost in the rounding,' says Boies, adding, 'The cost efficiency of Linux won't rise or fall.'"

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Posted May 29, 2003 0:54 UTC (Thu) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

everyone thinks SCO is in it for the money and out to thwart Linux. In Boies' eyes, it's hard to see how anyone could jump to that conclusion.

Pretty funny stuff. Boies does not think asking someone for $1 billion should be construed as "being in it for the money"? (And as for thwarting Linux, I guess those 1500 letters were actually intended for some other purpose?)

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted May 29, 2003 0:57 UTC (Thu) by pto (guest, #5753) [Link]

It's hard to say which is sleazier: SCO or a lawyer who claims that $1 billion is a rounding
error.

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted May 30, 2003 0:58 UTC (Fri) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

Sounds like a Lawyer that is also a been counter as in has been ......

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted May 29, 2003 1:00 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

You'd think that Boies believes that in Linus' executive office in the penthouse of the 200 story Linux Tower, Linus can order his CFO to throw SCO a $1 Billion dollar bone. At least that's what it sounds like. Boies seems to be very detached from reality. Not even IBM can shrug off $1 Bil.

Bruce

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted Jun 1, 2003 9:55 UTC (Sun) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link]

According to current SCO results the $1B equals SCO's license revenues for only 30 years, that sure gets lost in the rounding when a lawyer does the calculations ;-)

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted May 29, 2003 2:02 UTC (Thu) by ttraub (guest, #2950) [Link]

Pretty smooth talking lawyer. He's working on contingency, so he has a very big interest in winning this case. Hope he loses big time.

Boies' Take (Forbes)

Posted May 29, 2003 2:57 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

SCO delenda est!

Boies' on the way down?

Posted May 29, 2003 6:38 UTC (Thu) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]

His heyday is probably over considering that Al Gore isn't our president.

Ob lawyer joke:
Q: What's the difference between a rooster and a lawyer?
A: A rooster clucks defiance...

Why everybody seems to hate SCO...

Posted May 29, 2003 11:58 UTC (Thu) by MathFox (guest, #6104) [Link]

We can just compare SCO's behaviour with that from Microsoft. We all know that MS has its darker sides, but Microsoft at least tries to provide some value to its customers. SCO's techniques can be described as offensive, intimidating and extortionist. They recently lowered the amount of value they provide to their customers to the contractual minimum.