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<P>"The rancorous Supreme Court pronouncement on the 2000 Presidential election <BR>~ ought to remind everyone that the US' legal system is at best a lottery, <BR>~ and at worst, deeply swayed by human vices." -- Andrew Orlowski </P>
<P><BR>By the virtue this sco has a valid case.</P>
<P>EK<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Emir <EMIR-+0Uepm4v0EJuNKkiiyPfRg@public.gmane.org>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org
<DIV></DIV>>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: SCO has valid case
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:44:48 -0400
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<DIV></DIV>>On 22/08/2003 16:10, rickl-ZACYGPecefkNbK0NzMECUg@public.gmane.org wrote:
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<DIV></DIV>>| I was at SCO Forum this week and viewed some of the disputed code
<DIV></DIV>>and
<DIV></DIV>>| SCO's explanations both without and with NDA. They have a valid
<DIV></DIV>>case.
<DIV></DIV>>| Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.6 contains AIX code which allows scalability
<DIV></DIV>>| beyond that which would have been available in a "regular
<DIV></DIV>>development
<DIV></DIV>>| timeframe". Anyone interested in a copy of the non-nda PPT let me
<DIV></DIV>>know
<DIV></DIV>>| and I'll email you a copy. I've tried several postings to the list
<DIV></DIV>>| server but it does'nt seem to be working.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Couple of points here, Rick:
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<DIV></DIV>>1. Unless you're a judge in a US Court of Law with jurisdiction over
<DIV></DIV>>this
<DIV></DIV>>case, I'd strongly recommend you *never* state it as a fact that SCO
<DIV></DIV>>does or
<DIV></DIV>>does not have a valid case. Signing SCO's NDA and sitting through
<DIV></DIV>>their
<DIV></DIV>>PowerPoint presentation doesn't make you qualified to make such
<DIV></DIV>>judgments, at
<DIV></DIV>>least not in a public forum such as this one. Nobody's gonna stop
<DIV></DIV>>you, but it
<DIV></DIV>>can't be considered anything but FUD and thus your credibility takes
<DIV></DIV>>the
<DIV></DIV>>one-way trip down the sewers of our fine City.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>2. Assuming it's the same presentation everyone else saw, it's
<DIV></DIV>>already been
<DIV></DIV>>taken apart by many UNIX experts, and Bruce Perens himself wrote an
<DIV></DIV>>analysis
<DIV></DIV>>of the presentation (http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html).
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>3. Let's talk logic for a moment here: IBM is at risk to lose $3bn,
<DIV></DIV>>maybe
<DIV></DIV>>more, from a company they can buy for $25M. Do you honestly think
<DIV></DIV>>IBM's army
<DIV></DIV>>of IP lawyers (and IBM is rumoured to have the largest collection of
<DIV></DIV>>those in
<DIV></DIV>>history of human kind) overlooked that and it took *you* to figure
<DIV></DIV>>the case is
<DIV></DIV>>in SCO's favour?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>At the end, I'm gonna tell you something you should've been told a
<DIV></DIV>>long time
<DIV></DIV>>ago: not everything you see on a PowerPoint slide is necessarily
<DIV></DIV>>true.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>- --
<DIV></DIV>>Emir.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>"The rancorous Supreme Court pronouncement on the 2000 Presidential
<DIV></DIV>>election
<DIV></DIV>>~ ought to remind everyone that the US' legal system is at best a
<DIV></DIV>>lottery,
<DIV></DIV>>~ and at worst, deeply swayed by human vices." -- Andrew
<DIV></DIV>>Orlowski
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