It means that when IBM hit them, they will *king*hit* them

It means that when IBM hit them, they will *king*hit* them

Posted Sep 16, 2003 10:27 UTC (Tue) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
In reply to: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld) by ccchips
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

IBM subpoenaed not The SCO Group, but The Canopy Group, controllers of The SCO Group. Think about that for a minute.

Now reflect on how obviously, theatrically childish D'ohl's reactions have been so far. Imagine that he's seen the subpoena and panicked, and shredded some stuff.

Now imagine that IBM have legitimate copies of that stuff.

Now imagine D'ohl in a Federal Pen, having (as someone else so quaintly put it) changed his name to Trixiebell in order to feel better about his relationship with his neighbours.

Now imagine that this is only one potential avenue of attack, and IBM is covering them all.

I'd be surprised if IBM wanted to not so much defeat the lawsuit as make it absolutely clear to anyone else who wants to try a similar stunt that it would be a very, very bad idea. In legal terms, I think they want to eradicate the whole family to three generations out, their staff, pets, anyone who owes them money or to whom they owe money, burn their belongings, turn any property they own into flat desolate gravel, well... you get the idea.

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