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King Of Wishful Thinking
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If management of every troubled company followed the standard of feeling duty bound to pressing tenuous, if not outright frivolous, lawsuits as a last ditch effort to stave off disaster, the already overburdened legal system would grind to a halt. The only reason SCO was able to proceed with theirs was because of venture capital funding and selling shares publicly. Quote:
Considering your past views of management, you are being very sympathetic to a group of uber-MBA types who bought rights to a product they did not create and stretched those rights beyond what almost anyone else, including the people who sold them those rights, believed they had. If I were to buy a Sekhem-Scepter at an auction, it wouldn't make me King of the Nile. Buying UNIX at the 'fire sale' does not automatically give SCO the right to assume that LINUX was infringing. SCO did not create the software, so it probably couldn't even determine that the software was original to UNIX. After all these years, I still cannot find an independent verification for SCO's claim. You are correct, though, TW. If management filed suit just to file suit, with no real expectation of winning, then they have at least won the battle. They temporarily drove the stock price of SCO up by at least a factor of twenty, and caused enough Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt among the business community to stall adoption of Linux, and made a few bucks along the way shaking down businesses. The insiders have probably long since cashed out now and retired to a warm place which is unfortunately not Hell.
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