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Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 20, 2003 14:56 UTC (Thu) by TheOneKEA (subscriber, #615)
Parent article: Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Yet another example of how SCO is merely trying to bully and intimidate the community into paying it money that it does not have a right to demand.

It seems like every time SCO releases a new story, their claims get more and more fantastic. I don't understand why anyone is still listening to them.


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Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 20, 2003 15:26 UTC (Thu) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

Yet another example of how SCO is merely trying to bully and intimidate the community into paying it money that it does not have a right to demand.

...or, more likely, that SCO is trying to make investors and the media believe that it has a hope of bullying the community into paying it money it doesn't deserve.

SCO today is what happens when the schoolyard bullies who beat up other kids for the lunch money, but never seem to get punished by the school, grow up. (Or, rather, grow older.)

-Rob

Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 20, 2003 16:23 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

...and colder.

Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 20, 2003 16:43 UTC (Thu) by zonker (guest, #7867) [Link]

SCO isn't even an effective bully. They're the kid who keeps saying "my big brother (in this case, the courts) will beat you up." The big brother never arrives, and after a while, the wanna-be bully is the one that gets beaten up...

Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 20, 2003 21:50 UTC (Thu) by dbhost (guest, #3461) [Link]

"It seems like every time SCO releases a new story, their claims get more and more fantastic. I don't understand why anyone is still listening to them."

I remember in college, going to more than my share of parties where I did not partake in any adult beverage, but rather enjoyed watching the business majors (and others) get totally hammered, and then watch the fun as they try to pick up on the girls they would never have the cojones to talk to sober. Or even more fun, at homecoming bonfires, watching them stumble into the fire. I think it is that same sort of perverse fascination with watching others stupidity that makes the SCO case so interesting....

Did SCO Really Reveal the Code to IBM, as Darl Claims? (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 21, 2003 9:08 UTC (Fri) by rev (guest, #15082) [Link]

It seems like every time SCO releases a new story, their claims get more and more fantastic. I don't understand why anyone is still listening to them.

Because SCO exec's wear suits, sound confident and are persuasive. That's all for today's journalists to buy the nonsense. Checking the facts and asking difficult question is not in their system. Headlines must be produced, columns must be filled.

Stock market analysts may have additional reasons to fall for SCO. Firstly it is in their system to rely on business oriented sources of information (SCO executives). Secondly they see SCO stock on the rise, they sense $$$ so they want to believe SCO.

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