Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter B Van Campen wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 14:16, James Knott wrote:
>>Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>The bottom line is that Darl McBride and company are not only ruining the
>>>former Caldera, but doing their best to hurt the entire Unix/Linux
>>>marketplace, which might be their objective.
>>I wonder what their lawyers think about the Novell suit, particularly
>>regarding McBride trying to get the copyrights from Novell and also
>>about that software engineer's memo?  Did they know about them or were
>>they surprised?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well the  SCOG lawyers DID demand payment in ADVANCE!
> 
> PeterB
> 
> p.s. remember that the now NONsecret ATT-Berkeley agreement strongly suggests 
> that traditional UNIX code has been PUBLIC DOMAIN for many years now, and 
> that consequently these suits are MOOT
> 

My question is what happens, should the lawyers find out that the client
has lied?  That there really is no case?  Somehow, I don't get the
impression that David Boies would proceed with a case he knows to be
fraudulent.