Re: SCOForum 2004 - actually there

From: J. L. Schilling (jlselsewhere_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: 6 Aug 2004 07:08:58 -0700

Joe Dunning <joe@dev.null> wrote in message news:<slrnch5e4e.ls.joe@localhost.localdomain>...
> On 2004-08-05, J. L. Schilling <jlselsewhere@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > For the record, neither Hunsaker nor Gupta said anything about the
> > lawsuits or associated issues;
>
> Probably because the news from the legal front is not good. [...]

No, because they were talking about product stuff. Sontag went over
each of the lawsuits in detail. Unsurprisingly, his assessment of
them was very different from yours.

> Baystar: just beginning? I guess SCO would really rather prefer everyone
> forgot about Baystar.

No, the Baystar matter was discussed by the CFO. And Darl explicitly
stated that they had rejected [Baystar's] strategic advice that SCO dump
its products business and just become a lawsuit company.

> I note that SCO did not risk putting forward any more code that they
> claimed was copied from SysV into Linux: not after being shown up for
> the liars that they are last year.

They did list out areas that copying occurred in, but you're right,
they didn't show any actual code.

> So tell me Mr. Schilling: do you really believe that SCO is likely to
> win against IBM?

It doesn't matter what I think or you think or anyone else here thinks.
The process will go forward and there will be an outcome, and nobody
here will have any influence on that.

Jonathan Schilling