From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 7 8:17:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BAB37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-88.apple.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91D943FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:17:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h27GHHiO003354 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([68.39.203.40]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HBDZWT00.GSE; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:17:17 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:17:23 -0500 Subject: Re: FYI: SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Bakul Shah , chat@FreeBSD.ORG To: Brett Glass From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030307020546.02bfcb00@localhost> Message-Id: <4790E71A-50B8-11D7-82DA-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 04:06 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:09 PM 3/6/2003, Bakul Shah wrote: > >> ... >> At that time he also confirmed to eWeek that the company >> had hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal >> firm to investigate whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and >> versions of BSD infringed on the Unix intellectual >> property it owned. > > All they need to do is take it to the Supreme Court, which > didn't seem to think much of Boies the last time. > > --Brett > It won't reach there. IBM is very good at delaying things. Also They have to go through the normal legal process which I don't think SCO has the money to do. They are trying to bully ibm for a payoff. IBM does not get bullied either heh. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message