Prisoner's Dilemma? Faith in Lawyers?

Prisoner's Dilemma? Faith in Lawyers?

Posted Jul 24, 2003 20:41 UTC (Thu) by cpm (subscriber, #3554)
In reply to: Prisoner's Dilemma? Faith in Lawyers? by AnswerGuy
Parent article: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

Interesting point.

It never even occured to me that the US justice system and judges
would even think about doing something because it is the right
thing to do.

The nearly fantastic mishandling of MicroSoft by the US justice
department pretty much put to bed any thoughts whatsoever that
the courts had any interests at all in doing the right thing when
it comes to issues like this.

Sure, it seems cynical, but it is really just pragmatic.

SCO can sue whomever they wish. As long as they can afford to.
However, in this case, all they need do is threaten and their
stock goes up, they get more press, MicroSoft products look better
and better to the public at large, and the big dogs at SCO get
a few million closer to the big dream retirement.

There appears to be no downside.

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