Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the this-is-only-gonna-get-more-interesting dept.
djtrippin writes "Linus comes forth on the SCO v IBM suit and how it pertains (or doesn't, for that matter) to Linux." He definitely puts a fair amount of perspective on the whole thing. This story really is only going to get more bizarre.
Re:"Linus came forth"?
by
fishbowl
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· Score: 3, Troll
>>Linux is to Unix as a Bicycle is to a Luxury Car
>so, uh, let me guess...not to hot in the verbal >section?
I don't think you understood -- that is a verbatim quote from the actual court document. SCO has actually made that statement in their complaint, and with a straight face, filed it with a court.
Personally, I would have fired the lawyer who came up with that. (It reminds me of the time I DID fire a lawyer for saying "you don't need a nuclear bomb to blow up an anthill" in a piece of litigation for me.)
In a first draft you can say amateur crap like that, but this is a billion dollar suit. It calls for some standards.
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>>Linux is to Unix as a Bicycle is to a Luxury Car
>so, uh, let me guess...not to hot in the verbal
>section?
I don't think you understood -- that is a verbatim quote from the actual court document. SCO has actually made that statement in their complaint, and with a straight face, filed it with a court.
Personally, I would have fired the lawyer who came up with that. (It reminds me of the time I DID fire a lawyer for saying "you don't need a nuclear bomb to blow up an anthill" in a piece of litigation for me.)
In a first draft you can say amateur crap like that, but this is a billion dollar suit. It calls for some standards.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.