Re: Sco vs. IBM

[Rick Franchuk]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, James Simmons wrote:

> 
> > MLP> Ok .. here we got us a few more articles about the stuff going on. A
> > MLP> friend pointed me at these:
> > 
> > I think that this one
> > 
> > <http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html>
> > 
> > is very illuminating.
> 
> How pathetic!!! He is just like the people who going into stores to stage 
> accidents and then sue the store.He makes a living by sueing. I dobut he 
> can sue every big UNIX implementor/user. he has to go again SUN, IBM and 
> other big names.

In other words:

"Those who can't do, sue."

To be fair though, SCO aren't the only ones suing for a living. Check out
these guys:

http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=34898,00.asp

Article focuses on the adult industry, but it's easy how this could spill over
to affect anyone delivering any sort of content online. Gotta love our current 
IP laws...