SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com)
SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com)
Posted Jun 17, 2003 3:25 UTC (Tue) by ttraub (guest, #2950)Parent article: SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com)
The incredible thing is that their lawyer Boies is going along with this nonsense, and on a contingency basis to boot. Typical prostitute, for sale to the highest bidder regardless of how ridiculous or unethical or destructive it might be. I hope he wastes a whole lot of his firm's time and totally discredits himself. Feh.
Posted Jun 17, 2003 4:30 UTC (Tue)
by StevenCole (guest, #3068)
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The larger goal of this is to put the final nails in the coffin of UNIX by
causing SCO to self-destruct. They're essentially saying "Hey, let's you and him fight". And "him" has the largest and most competent legal department
of any IT organization on the planet. Oh yeah, that's a great idea.
A secondary benefit is Microsoft's recent antagonist David Boies is further
discredited with yet another defeat.
Here is a conspiracy theory: What if Microsoft, by funding this
Jerry Springer episode, is acting as an
agent provocateur - "a person hired to join a labor union, political party, etc.
in order to incite its members to actions that will make them or their organization
liable to penalty" (Webster's New World Dictionary, 1972)
SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com)