EV1Servers.Net's CEO Regrets SCO Deal

spafbnerf writes "Everyone Internet's CEO Robert Marsh, when asked his feelings about the SCO deal almost a month ago responds: 'Would I do it again? No. I'll go on the record as saying that,' Marsh said. 'I certainly know a lot more today than I knew a month ago, in a lot of respects.'"

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I.E. he has lost a lot of customers

[mao che minh]

In his arrogance, which saturated his original comments, he didn't believe that consumer backlash would strong. It appears that he was wrong, though he will cloak his motives in a variety of reasons, for sure.

I know of three major customers of EV1 that left two to three days after the announcement ("left" as in they cancled their contracts when they expired and began the migration elsewhere).

Re:He admits his mistake.

[One Louder]

Actually, the only people SCO have actually sued have been their own customers.

It appears the best way to *not* get sued is to *not* pay them.

Re:He admits his mistake.

[sTalking_Goat]

Only if the company being sued is reasonably large. Lawsuits in this country are really out of hand. Philip Morris (MR. B.I.G. Tabacco himself) sued my girlfriends parents last year for selling counterfeit cigarettes. They own a tiny little store sell maybe 2 or 3 packs a day and hardly speak any English but PM sued them for amounts in the 6 figure range. Even with a no money settlement (they gave up the names of their suppliers) and a lawyer that did most of his actual work pro bono it still wound up costing them a couple thousand dollars.

How is a small business supposed to survive that?