Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Darl, Norris, Bryan Cave Named as Defendants in IP Litigation - The
> Pelican Brief
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Well, my dreams are coming true. This is better than eagles. A new
> | lawsuit with Darl McBride, Stephen Norris and Bryan Cave all named
> | as defendants by Pelican Equity. The accusation? Theft of trade
> | secrets.
> |
> | No. Wait. Wait. Wait. It gets better. They are also accused of
> | violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There is a God!
> | [passes out from joy]
> `----
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009070123514867
This story demands greater exposure, since it reveals the full extent
of SCO's (and their partners') depraved and thuggish mentality, so
please quote the full Groklaw article, for the benefit of non-members.
Here's an analysis:
'A disturbing taste of the "Digital Wild West"'
[quote]
Dodgy dealings happen all the time but it's not often you get to see
it boiling over into the public arena as we have today. I saw in my
newsfeed this morning that GrokLaw had picked up on (Darl, Norris,
Bryan Cave Named as Defendants in IP Litigation - The Pelican Brief) a
Courthouse News article (Ex-Partner Accused of AIP Trade Secret Theft)
about a recently filed complaint by Pelican Equity, LLC against Talos
Partners, Darl McBride (of SCO Group fame), Robert V. Brazell (of
Overstock.com fame), Stephen L. Norris, Rama Ramachandran and lawfirm
Bryan Cave LLP.
It claims a conspiracy to "steal AIP's proprietary stock loan product"
(EQUITAP™, [which] helps investors achieve their financial goals by
structuring non-recourse loans using the securities in their portfolio
as collateral) and "virtually API's entire business from API and its
founder, Mark Robbins" (Pelican claim to own the relevant rights). It
then goes on to explain the whole sorry story of a techie (Robbins)
investing four years and apparently all of his money into development
of a product, being approached by seasoned businessmen (Brazell &
McBride) as potential partners, the subsequent formation of a new
business (Talos) and theft of everything from AIP's products to
website to employees (Ramachandran) with the help of AIP's own lawyers
(Bryan Cave LLP) who ultimately blew the whistle with an "astonishing"
conflict of interest waiver.
The truly mindblowing part of the whole story though is the Skyline
Cowboy site they claim is run by McBride and Brazell: "Finally, in a
heinous effort to obliterate AIP's business and deflect their misdeeds
[they] have over approximately the last 60 days littered the Internet
with scurrilous postings on www.skylinecowboy.com, a website they used
primarily for that purpose, and on Yahoo, Twitter and other message
boards."
If that's true it's like coming back to stab the guy in the carpark
after you've robbed him of everything he owns. Not only have they
posted a video of the guy's wife being served what they claim is a
$109,627 check fraud judgment following a $1,000 bounty as well as a
$20,000 reward for arrest and $1,000,000 reward for "full restitution"
(save that both appear to be impossible - and likely a result of the
claimed highway robbery), but now they've offered $30,000 for the true
identity of GrokLaw's Pamela Jones (PJ) who they claim is a "Secret
IBM Shill Blogger". Let's not be too quick to forget the relationship
to SCO Group and their apparently Microsoft funded attacks on IBM,
Novell and Linux in general.
Anyway you can see the juicy details for yourself in the filings and
if you're a GrokLaw member, the article and associated discussion (the
article has since been updated "Now that I've read it, I've made the
article Members Only for now." and unfortunately "creation of new
accounts has been temporarily disabled"). I have but one question: Who
the %!#$ do these cowboys think they are? It's amazing to think that
our society routinely jails people for petty theft while leaving [what
appear to be] career conmen free to enrich themselves at others'
expense. Anyway at least Bernie Madoff got his comeuppance... you've
heard my opinion - what's yours?
[/quote]
http://samj.net/2009/07/disturbing-taste-of-digital-wild-west.html
http://ew-in-f132.google.com/search?q=cache:lamhhkTdHQsJ:samj.net/2009/07/disturbing-taste-of-digital-wild-west.html+Finally,+in+a+heinous+effort+to+obliterate+AIP's+business+and+deflect+their+misdeeds&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&lr=lang_en
And lest we forget Microsoft's involvement with criminal thugs like
McBride:
[quote]
On the same day that CA blasted SCO Open Source evangelist Eric
Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO’s strategic consultant Mike
Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise
surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO’s financing,
hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital.
[quote]
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/34767
Microsoft is the criminal organisation that Miguel de Icaza
evangelises for. I wonder if, like his gangster heroes in Redmond, he
also supports SCO's agenda? Or is that one of those uncomfortable
"black and white" things he doesn't like to talk about?
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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