Xinuos sues IBM

Xinuos sues IBM

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.