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SCO owns the World?SCO owns the World?Posted Jun 20, 2003 12:22 UTC (Fri) by mgh (subscriber, #5696)Parent article: SCO owns the World? Sooo.... What is happening here? Imagine is Microsoft made an offer on SCO... their OS is implicated - so it would be a reasonable defense. Now what does IBM do then? Fight this with Microsoft? that _would_ be ironic if MS hired Boies too to continue the fight. No one has to prove anything here, this is a drama played on the stage for a bidding war - so IBM offers SCO 250M then what? What does Microsoft do? Would any lawyer on the planet say to the CEO of any company, ah don't worry, your greatest competitor has a case against your product - its nothing? At the very least it will potentially divert a huge about of energy into the case. I thought that there were powers the US govt had to public domain anything that is universally used in society? Maybe they shoud say "Yep everyone is infringing... Ok? Now - thats all in the Public Domain" Otherwise the big US software companies are going to be spending a huge amount resource fighting a never ending story... not a good way to stay competitive.
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SCO owns the World? Posted Jun 25, 2003 3:20 UTC (Wed) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link] What is happening here? Imagine is Microsoft made an offer on SCO... their OS is implicated - so it would be a reasonable defense. I'm sure they've thought of it. Just one problem. "Convicted monopolist OS vendor buys Unix, their only competitor" is very unlikely to fly. Even in the current American political scene. Right? Right?
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