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7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:00:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Hope & Headaches
>>>
>>> Watch out for these hot-button issues in 2007.
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Expect a big Linux vendor (think Red Hat or IBM) to file a lawsuit
>>>| of its own, in order to force Microsoft to spell out its claims in
>>>| detail. Meanwhile, as The SCO Group?s lawsuits against IBM, Novell
>>>| and Red Hat spiral into oblivion, Microsoft will continue to look
>>>| for some way to stave off the Linux threat.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.computerworld.com/action
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/yzs7ex
>>
>> Won't happen. I guarantee it. Neither IBM or Red Hat is foolish enough
>> to
>> file a lawsuit it has no hope of winning. Especially not Red Hat, who
>> would be castrated by it's shareholders for wasting profits getting into a
>> pissing match with a company with billions of dollars sitting in the bank.
>>
>> Why do they have no hope of winning? Because Microsoft is merely
>> expressing it's opinion, and you can't sue someone to stop expressing an
>> opinion.
>
> Winning?
> Who said anything about winning?
> Its about dragging micoshaft execs to court, and exposing
> their puppets, their memos, their tactics, and the directors
> of supportive companies and their activities into court
> so that shareholders on both sides and companies that
> have been harmed can evaluate what
> harm is being done to them and make
> a flurry of further lawsuits to recover what they
> are owed. Winning is the last thing on any one's mind.
> These actions are long overdue.
>
Actually, I think there could be a good case for winning, when you look
at the overall history. It would be more use, however, to campaign
against software patents in the US, oh yeah, and Australia, whose
government will no balls caved to US pressure to accept them.
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