SCO warned in a filing that its legal costs could be expensive, but the company revealed Wednesday that it doesn't have to bear the brunt of much of its legal costs. To pursue its case against IBM, SCO hired high-profile attorney David Boies, famous for his antitrust victory over Microsoft as well as his loss in the vote-counting controversy representing Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
SCO's legal costs are being paid under a contingency arrangement, McBride said. In such cases, lawyers typically are paid not by the hour, but with a percentage of whatever money they can win for their clients in the case.
As you are probably aware the lawfirm of Boies plus whatever other name they have as partners has taken the SCO case pretty much on contingency.
You do not go after someone with shallow pockets on a flimsy claim on a contingency basis.
They might be rodents but they are not dumb rodents.
Adding SGI to the IBM claim makes the issues harder for SCO as both IBM and SGI can point the other party if they need to. SCO can't just claim that One or the other did somethng they have to be specific, so it adds legal risk with pretty much zero legal upside.
Maybe I am splitting hairs but it is not a question of willingness, since there is no other option available.
The equity of SCO (this is different from their CAP value) is only a few millions, that will vanish in penalites imposed by the courts, notably since Redhat has no reason to settle this case.
This means that shareholders has an option of play the roulette and get somethng albeit with low likelyhood of succes or get nothing with certainty.
Which one would you pick?
Only caveat is if the corporate seal to Canopy can be pierced. In that case there is additional risk for the shareholders.
Since you have one do you mind tell me if the little cable attached to the watch is removable, and if yes where to keep it short of having it loose in a pocket. I looked at the pictures but it is not obvious.
CHEMISTRY
Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Yukio Hirose.
Isn't this precisely the way Penicillin was discovered by Fleming.
If I learned anything in the 2 lawsuits I have been involved in is that best strategy is to make time work for you.
There is a reason for Hamlet stating "The laws delay" in his famous To be or not soliloguy
They need to sit back and do pretty much nothing, other than make demands on SCO to produce the eveidence through discovery if they indeed get sued.
Second SGI needs all the press they can get so maybe something useful can come out of this. SGI would love to be mentioned in every sentence next to IBM and RH.
There is no proof that Microsoft had anything to do with this, and I think they didn't. I believe what he said in the article, he was fired because of the ties @stake has with Msoft, not because they specifically called @stake and asked for him to be fired.
This makes it worse not better
What this means, if true, is that you can NEVER trust anything from anybody in the commercial world that pertains to Microsoft.
Nothing Nada Zilch,
Treat anything as an Infomercials with without the warning.
Apparently SCO has asked for a 4 month delay so they can amend their pleadings and add additional parties.
If SCO really had a case they would not do this since time is not on their side. So why are they doing this?
Me Thinks Boies is bailing.
Off topic on the road show but if you want a running commentary from a lawyer on this whole fiaSCO look at this excellent site. The write up on promissory estoppel is quite good. It's a catch 22 for SCO
Your comment is about as valid as saying that making the hurdle someone has to cross 5 feet or 10 feet does not matter, as they will land on either side anyway.
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Take their employment section as an example
Financing a SGI suit by way of stock options is a "viable" method for SCO.
Here
It is in there SEC filing as well
Quote
SCO warned in a filing that its legal costs could be expensive, but the company revealed Wednesday that it doesn't have to bear the brunt of much of its legal costs. To pursue its case against IBM, SCO hired high-profile attorney David Boies, famous for his antitrust victory over Microsoft as well as his loss in the vote-counting controversy representing Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
SCO's legal costs are being paid under a contingency arrangement, McBride said. In such cases, lawyers typically are paid not by the hour, but with a percentage of whatever money they can win for their clients in the case.
You do not go after someone with shallow pockets on a flimsy claim on a contingency basis.
They might be rodents but they are not dumb rodents.
Adding SGI to the IBM claim makes the issues harder for SCO as both IBM and SGI can point the other party if they need to. SCO can't just claim that One or the other did somethng they have to be specific, so it adds legal risk with pretty much zero legal upside.
Maybe I am splitting hairs but it is not a question of willingness, since there is no other option available.
The equity of SCO (this is different from their CAP value) is only a few millions, that will vanish in penalites imposed by the courts, notably since Redhat has no reason to settle this case.
This means that shareholders has an option of play the roulette and get somethng albeit with low likelyhood of succes or get nothing with certainty.
Which one would you pick?
Only caveat is if the corporate seal to Canopy can be pierced. In that case there is additional risk for the shareholders.
Since you have one do you mind tell me if the little cable attached to the watch is removable, and if yes where to keep it short of having it loose in a pocket. I looked at the pictures but it is not obvious.
Thanks
CHEMISTRY Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Yukio Hirose.
Isn't this precisely the way Penicillin was discovered by Fleming.
If you ever loose your job at Microsoft I am sure the Home Shopping Network can use a talented presenter like you,
Best of Luck
Have you ever tried to compare the size of the resultant files?
100K sxw file gets to 400K in Doc going to 700K as PDF.
This makes a difference for people on a dial up, and folks like me that caps attachements at 250K.
There is a reason for Hamlet stating "The laws delay" in his famous To be or not soliloguy
They need to sit back and do pretty much nothing, other than make demands on SCO to produce the eveidence through discovery if they indeed get sued.
Second SGI needs all the press they can get so maybe something useful can come out of this. SGI would love to be mentioned in every sentence next to IBM and RH.
guess the t(o)(o) many (o)(o) 's was some sort of Freudian slip
If true why would I or anybody else, care if it is a Pump and Dump scheme.
It's a zero sum game inside a group of Mor(o)ons.
This makes it worse not better
What this means, if true, is that you can NEVER trust anything from anybody in the commercial world that pertains to Microsoft.
Nothing Nada Zilch,
Treat anything as an Infomercials with without the warning.
Note the HP logo has wanished since /. posted this
If SCO really had a case they would not do this since time is not on their side. So why are they doing this?
Me Thinks Boies is bailing.
Off topic on the road show but if you want a running commentary from a lawyer on this whole fiaSCO look at this excellent site. The write up on promissory estoppel is quite good. It's a catch 22 for SCO
That way we can get a whole lot more testing done with very little disruption on nornal system?
I tried to make one but I couldn't get it to boot, so maybe someone better qualified can try and if successful post Torrent file.
4) ????
5) Profit
as in Beer-Can
They could just have said that SCO is no longer shipping Linux.
We will just consider it a Freudian slip ;-)
(Judge) Saris declined to get into the complexities of the GPL
I am always taken back when lawyers talk about Ethics, but I guess it has to be understood in a Arbeit Macht Frei sense
The Expense will be as much at Intel's lucrative server business as it will be AMD's.
Nobody that has any insight into China will buy this story.
What are the alledged CEO's of western companies going to do? Tell then to change their evil ways or they wont play, Hardly