Xinuos sues IBM

Posted Apr 1, 2021 20:36 UTC (Thu) by jafd (subscriber, #129642)
In reply to: Xinuos sues IBM by nix
Parent article: Xinuos sues IBM

Ah, those guys.

And now they are suing IBM and Red Hat for the chutzpah Red Hat and IBM had by advertising the products of, surprised gasp, Red Hat and IBM, and not OpenServer or whatever else there is! This would totally work!

Either the lawyers who compose such lawsuits should belong to the loony bin, or the judicial system in which such lawsuits have even a flying chance should.

Xinuos sues IBM

Posted Apr 2, 2021 1:14 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (3 responses)

Either the lawyers who compose such lawsuits should belong to the loony bin, or the judicial system in which such lawsuits have even a flying chance should.

The company deserves the majority of the blame for this. Behind every sleazy lawyer, there's a sleazy client*. That's not to say the lawyers deserve to be absolved; they didn't have to take the case. But the primary blame should be on the client who initiated the suit. And it's not at all clear this suit has any real chance. Anyone file a suit over just about anything, and it takes the legal system a little while to throw out even the most obviously frivolous of suits. I don't expect this suit to stick around nearly as long as the original SCO suit.

*OK, maybe not quite every sleazy lawyer. Occasionally a sleazy lawyer will start with an idea for a lawsuit and then hunt for a client to justify it, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Xinuos sues IBM

Posted Apr 2, 2021 15:08 UTC (Fri) by jebba (guest, #4439) [Link] (2 responses)

Remember when Microsoft got SCO $50 mil?

"Update: Microsoft behind $50M SCO investment"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2563673/update--mic...

Microsoft -> Fund -> Client -> Lawyer -> Lawsuit

Xinuos sues IBM

Posted Apr 2, 2021 16:08 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

Remember, but it was 17 years ago. What's the relevance to the situation now?

Xinuos sues IBM

Posted Apr 2, 2021 18:20 UTC (Fri) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody was trying to fund this from behind the scenes, but I really doubt it’d be Microsoft this time around. Oracle, perhaps.