On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 12:16 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
What I was saying was that Ransome ran the company into the ground long before the lawsuit and therefore, it did a lot to set the stage for the lawsuit.
Caldera did _more_ for the GPL world under his guidance. And IBM screwed them over, when they _smartly_ bought SCO. In fact, I think you just made my point better than I could have. ;->
They had to earn money somehow to keep the company afloat and to save their stock price.
Not stock price, carry them to the trial. Right now SCO is getting _hammered_ because investors thought it was -- just like 90+% of the Linux community -- about the stock price. That was _never_ SCO's intent. The intent was to get enough money to make it to trial. I'm sorry, I'm pulling for SCO -- _big_time_! However, when I try to say it has 0% to do with Linux IP, I get drowned out by 90+% of the Linux community. So when SCO wins, while I'm trying to educate people on why they won and that it had 0% to do with Linux IP -- I'll be drowned out by the same mass ignorance we've seen here. ;-> -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own