Comment DAMAGES will amount to echo $0.00 /dev/null (Score 1) 754
Good points...
One which isn't mentioned much is damages. The courts which handle these types of case are, for the most part, not comprised of stupid officials. If this judge has any real sense of social justice, he would throw out the suit.
Assuming SCO won the case, then the burden is on them to demonstrate their financial losses. We all know it's a load of crap, but when you listen to Darl or Chris (Sontag) in an interview, they are provocative in their claim, as if it were some grand social injustice.
It's sickening when you read some articles with Darl McBride, and how money is at the foremost of this thinking. Here's a gem I bet most haven't read (from http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1141929
Darl McBride of SCO states: "Those guys [IBM] know what is going to come out in discovery, and you hear a lot of rumours on the street that they are going to buy us out. Well, I bet that's exactly what they want to do. The last thing they want to hear is the testimony that is going to come out."
Could you be more cocky than that? This jerk is so blindside with his conviction that IBM will buy them out, that you can practically see those dollar $igns bouncing in Darl's eye.
Here's another gem:
Chris Sontag stated: "What's at issue is that there is copyrighted Unix System V code, Version 4.1 code, copied into Linux. Whether it is used broadly or not [isn't relevant], it is widely published and available [...]"
The last time I checked, it did matter how broadly used it was because that is what will determine damages! DUHH!!!!
There's only one explanation, and that is these guys are thinking about cashout time. They know their jig is up, so they are stretching.
Absent of the greed these guys display, what people find most despicable about these guys is that they represent the worst of US executives. They are the stereotypical greedy executive personified. The outrage we are hearing is a positive reaction to a bad thing... let's not be so quick to condemn Eric's gut-acher response.
One which isn't mentioned much is damages. The courts which handle these types of case are, for the most part, not comprised of stupid officials. If this judge has any real sense of social justice, he would throw out the suit.
Assuming SCO won the case, then the burden is on them to demonstrate their financial losses. We all know it's a load of crap, but when you listen to Darl or Chris (Sontag) in an interview, they are provocative in their claim, as if it were some grand social injustice.
It's sickening when you read some articles with Darl McBride, and how money is at the foremost of this thinking. Here's a gem I bet most haven't read (from http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1141929
Darl McBride of SCO states: "Those guys [IBM] know what is going to come out in discovery, and you hear a lot of rumours on the street that they are going to buy us out. Well, I bet that's exactly what they want to do. The last thing they want to hear is the testimony that is going to come out."
Could you be more cocky than that? This jerk is so blindside with his conviction that IBM will buy them out, that you can practically see those dollar $igns bouncing in Darl's eye.
Here's another gem:
Chris Sontag stated: "What's at issue is that there is copyrighted Unix System V code, Version 4.1 code, copied into Linux. Whether it is used broadly or not [isn't relevant], it is widely published and available [...]"
The last time I checked, it did matter how broadly used it was because that is what will determine damages! DUHH!!!!
There's only one explanation, and that is these guys are thinking about cashout time. They know their jig is up, so they are stretching.
Absent of the greed these guys display, what people find most despicable about these guys is that they represent the worst of US executives. They are the stereotypical greedy executive personified. The outrage we are hearing is a positive reaction to a bad thing... let's not be so quick to condemn Eric's gut-acher response.
