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Re: [News] PJ: SCO Still Matters

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Note from News Picks:
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | [PJ: Linux-watch is saying that SCO "no longer matters" so they won't
> | [cover
> | the story any more. It's "old news". For example, they covered the
> | news about SCO filing a claim for spoliation back when it happened. But
> | if you read that report, it's all SCO's claims. IBM doesn't respond with
> | its side. So, now that IBM finally gets to answer the claim, suddenly
> | it's not news worth covering? The media was all over SCO's phony bogo
> | claims. Steven Vaughan Nichols was one of the few who actually went to
> | the trouble of finding experts to provide opposing views and some
> | balance, but now that IBM finally gets to speak, after years of silence,
> | he doesn't feel it's worth covering on a site called Linux-watch?  Hey,
> | Steven, we're just getting started. This is the fun part, the part where
> | SCO finally gets to reap what it sowed. And you may not have noticed,
> | but we've just begun "SCO2, Deja Vu" with the Novell-Microsoft patent
> | "agreement", which I consider an outgrowth of the SCO saga.  Seriously,
> | the media, in my view, has a responsibility to undo some of the damage
> | that was done to IBM, to Novell, to AutoZone, to DaimlerChrysler, to
> | Linus' good name, to mine, and to Linux. You were all there for the
> | juicy accusations that did the damage. You have an obligation, both
> | legal and moral, in my view, to chronicle the truth now coming out, so
> | as to undo at least some of the damage that the media in general helped
> | SCO to cause. I believe that is standard procedure in any case involving
> | libel, to make sure the correction is also fairly reported. But thank
> | you, Steven, for saying such nice things about Groklaw.]
> `----
> 
> Context:
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2065142,00.asp
>  
>         SCO No Longer Matters

I agree with the writer, IBMs side needs to be aired too. 

The public knowledge of what is going to happen will help all of us who are
against the stupidity of the patent laws.

When the SCO chairman is eventually reduced to selling matches on street
corners, perhaps he will earn a bit of beer money selling the true story to
the press, about MS's involvement. 

Maybe could be entitled 'How MS persuaded 5'9" 200lbs SCO to commit suicide
by thumping a 6'10" 350lbs bouncer, now its the bouncers turn', it might
even make a nice film, though a very short one.



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