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Story: SCO adds another accusation to IBM case

Posted by: Mark (Friday 6 February 2004, 4:03 PM)

No-one seems to get that the main point of the lawsuit is to create uncertainity about Linux, that is what Microsoft have paid SCO millions to do.

SCO know they are almost certainly going to lose due to a total lack of evidence to support their claims but in order to put off companies switching to Linux for a few more years, they are doing everything they can to prolong the lawsuit.

The obvious way to do this? everytime the suit looks like its about to get somewhere, chuck in another accusation so that a few more months must pass for each legal team to investigate the new (equally unfounded) claim, as soon as this has happened SCO will undoubtably through in another accusation and the case will be further prolonged.

If this lawsuit was being conducted in any other country but lawyer-loving America I bet the case would have been chucked out years ago as the uncertainty creating attempt it is with SCO and Microsoft then being sued by the Linux companies for loss of earnings.

All this while Microsoft continue to convince US regulators that they are now a nice, ethical company (a problem which so far has been solved by funding George Bush's election campaign, in a sort of legal corruption sort of way).