31 Mar
2018
31 Mar
'18
4:56 p.m.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Time for another hand-grenade in the duck pond :-) Or
as we call it
down-under, "stirring the possum".
On this day in 2010, it was found unanimously that Novell, not SCO, owned
"Unix". SCO appealed later, and it was dismissed "with prejudice";
SCO
shares plummeted as a result.
As an aside, this was the first and only time that I was on IBM's side, and I
still wonder whether M$ was bankrolling SCO in an effort to wipe Linux off
the map; what sort of an idiot would take on IBM?
My initial thought, when I saw that SCO had filed the $1B lawsuit, was
that maybe Darl McBride was hoping that the next headline people read
would be "IBM acquires SCO for $(some amount below $1B)."
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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