SCO has valid case

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Cool your jets buddy, I'm just passing along what I saw.
I'm entitled to my opinion like everyone else.
RickT

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:44:48 -0400, Emir <emir-rdkfGonbjUTTQjIoRn/dzw at public.gmane.org> wrote :

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