Story: Who Shot Darl McBride?
Posted by: Jack Carroll (Friday 23 April 2004, 8:36 PM)
Good article, but there's one more hypothesis you and BayStar should consider. The point of SCO's shtick isn't to win lawsuits, it's to have lawsuits in play. That's why they do everything possible to keep any of them from progressing toward judgment, and file more suits when the first ones start looking tatty. The purpose of the lawsuits is to generate publicity, not to win damages. The reason for the publicity is to perpetrate the illusion that SCO is a real company, with assets that are worth something -- in order that the insiders can unload their stock before the bottom inevitablly drops out. I seriously doubt that BayStar is involved in monkey business of any sort. They look to me like victims of a stock swindle. Microsoft is a side issue -- they just saw an opportunity to sucker somebody else into financing their dirty work.
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Excellent article! I enjoyed the read even though... Anonymous -
Excellent points, though Groklaw has pretty well s... Robert Halloran
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SCO can't drop the products side of their business... Dominc Jackson
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Great article!
BayStar now looking for a scapgoa... Anonymous
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Excellent.
I loved the article Anonymous
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Very well written! A jewel of a summary for past a... Pierre van der Riet
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there is a lot of both ,god and common sense in th... Anonymous
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Excellent. I loved it. (S)ublime (C)orporate (O)ratory
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Excellent Article - Microsoft was the puppeteer!! Anonymous
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Good article, but there's one more hypothesis you... Jack Carroll -
Don't get our hopes up with titles like that! ;^) Anonymous
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Once all the dust settles and the smoke is cleared... Anonymous
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You're a fluff idiot (lousy journalist). No one wa... Anonymous
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Great insight, colorfully written. Thanks for the... John Koenig
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To anonymous who complained that "no one was shot"... Anonymous
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