Re: OT: SCO versus IBM

From: wild bill (bill_at_sunsouthwest.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:01:38 GMT

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:28:05 -0500, "GeeDunk" <none@none.com> wrote:

>I can't remember IBM ever losing an important suit. They even pounded the
>Justice dept into the ground twice.

Then I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that you are ignorant.

Many, maybe most, successful suits are *settled*, and
that means the evidence and terms are SEALED, never
to be seen or discussed in public.

Imagine if you could stick up a bank, then if something
went wrong, simply 'settle' the charges against you and
walk away. In the world of Commercial Crime, that is
exactly what happens.

Rarely, say Michael Jackson and some 14 year old, it
can happen in the Criminal realm, but that's really the
rare exception.

But back to your post.

Control Data kicked IBM's *** big time. And, like many
companies enriched by 'free money' they grew fat and
lazy. The Justice Department, on the other hand, being
a Government Bureaucracy was already fat and lazy and
simply let the Control Data evidence slip through their
fingers. Without it, they had virtually no case.

Recently, whether you know it or not, Caldera took a BIG
chunk out of Gates & Co. Can they survive their 'win'?
And, again, fat and lazy Government let the evidence
get past them. Some very incriminating stuff may well
have been destroyed by now. That destruction alone
should be adequate proof of criminal intent.

What's usually spread all over the public media is far
from the whole truth about a topic. When it comes to
lawsuits, that goes double.

Bill
CDC #2051

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