My fiscal responcibility to my company ver. Open Source - advice please

Lloyd Budd lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org
Sat May 22 04:33:19 UTC 2004


On 22-May-04, at 0:23, Madison Kelly wrote:

> No, they didn't have so much of a choice in the law suit but they 
> certainly did have a choice on how they handled it. They could very 
> easily have bought SCO with a hostile take over for less hassle and 
> cost then the court case is probably costing them but they chose 
> instead to make a stand and end the question of whether OSS is legally 
> sound.

A hostile takeover would likely have been as bad IBM losing the case .  
I doubt it relates , but most companies do not negotiate with 
terrorists ;-)

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