sco:ibm lawsuit

[Jamon Camisso]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> --- Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> This is an unbelievable lawsuit. Just how long can
>> they pull it on ? 
>> Longer than the Bold and the Beautiful ? According
>> to Slashdot IBM are 
>> feeling that the lawsuit is Kafkaesque (with
>> references to 'Der 
>> Prozeß'). I already knew that. Is there some
>> precedent to how long a 
>> lawsuit can be drawn out ?
> 
> I am not a lawyer, and I only talk to them when I feel
> I must. 
> 
> Still, I am sure with appeals this may drag out
> several more years. Think about it, when SCO started
> this @#$% SCO shares were about $1 each, they are now
> around $4 each (granted for a time they were over $15
> each), so, this lawsuit has been great for the
> executives who have been issued and then cashed out
> SCO stock. The minute the lawsuit is over, when SCO
> has been proven not to have a hope of shaking IBM down
> for $$$ then SCO's assets return to being a dying Unix
> business and they will the liability of a massive IBM
> counter suit. So, SCO executives milk this for every
> dollar they can get for themselves and they want this
> suit to go on as long as possible.
> 
> IBM is in no great rush, they want SCO DEAD in a way
> that leaves NO question regarding IBM having acted
> improperly. So, IBM is patient, but they will crush
> SCO, just later rather than sooner. In other words IBM
> will do everything in the courts by the book and take
> SCO's claims apart slowly, methodically.

They're doing a good job at defending themselves I'd say. Groklaw has a 
great article today titled "A Chart to Immortalize SCO's Lack of 
Specificity". Take a read here:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060405202303212
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