"Law.com has the most eye-opening article about David Boies and his firm. It is an older article, from February of 2003, which is just after SCO retained the firm, and the article explains some of the puzzling things we've noticed, like the abundance of typos in their legal pleadings. When you retain Boies, Schiller, you are expecting David Boies, that level of quality. According to the article, that isn't always what you get.
"It also explains a bit about Robert Silver, who was added to the SCO team on the IBM case on May 28, mentioned in the June teleconference, and who has just been added to the SCO team on the Novell case, according to Pacer. He is also listed as co-counsel on the SCO Complaint against DaimlerChrysler. It looks like they hope he is the cavalry..."