On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:45 pm, James Ogley wrote:
If SCO tries to sue Linus T. then I have $100 ready to send to the "Linus Torvalds War Chest". I would imagine it would grow pretty large quite quickly.
IANAL (thank God), but it seems to me that the more people SCO add to the growing list of people to sue (I reckon they're aiming for a total defendant list of 6bn people...) the less their chance of actually winning, because every time they add someone, it's because it's clear that the previous front was doomed to failure.
"Gee, we can't beat them [cos we're in the wrong and have no case], who can we sue next then?" --
Your right on target AFAICT. In my mind, the more he keeps adding people to the list the more it seems like a grand smear campaign. And as John A. pointed out, SCO could be sticking their foot in their mouth by publically threatening to sue Linus. It will force them to try to show something just to keep from being lible themselves. I mean, they publically cast ethical disparaging remarks about Linus (not to mention 1500 clients) and then refuse to substantiate their accusations and implicate everyone that seems to have even looked at a Linux cd... Sounds close to lible to me. At least with IBM they filed docs and served summons. So do we expect for someone to show up with a folded piece of paper at Linus' house and then state "served"? McBride = dupe. Dumb enough and desperate enough to start chasing tort money and believing what Bill and Steve tells him. Nice frontman for a smear campaign. The best that Redmond could buy at least. And when fall time comes Bill and Co. will be well out of the crossfire. Cheers, Curtis.