From: "Joe Barr" 

On Mon, 19 May 2003 23:14:20 +0100, Adam Flinton wrote:

> Peter Sawatzki wrote:
>> The interesting thing here is that SCO could use this as evidence in a
>> trial AND now has certainly some money at hand for the trial.
>>
>>
> The first point is....??? The second is more germaine. My guess fwiw is
> that the second was planned all along. I would love to see the MS/SCo
> meeting notes etc on this as I don't believe the timing is co-incidental.
> If I were IBM I would get my lawyers crawling all over the meeting notes
> between SCO & MS on this.
>
> I don't think SCO has a snowball's chance in hell but I do think MS might
> be prepared to bankroll this as a last roll of the dice. I also think it's
> actually pretty silly of them as a convicted monopolist who has abused
> that position it could rebound on them very nastily if the IBM lawyers
> pick up some interesting SCO-MS meeting notes/correspondance.
>
> Adam

It does show how terrified the maggots in Redmond are of competition.

Some things never change.





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