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:VNUnet: IBM Countersuit Could 'Bleed SCO Dry'
VNUnet: IBM Countersuit Could 'Bleed SCO Dry'
Aug 7, 2003, 21 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (12001 reads)

(Other stories by Peter Williams)

[ Thanks to EvilBob for this link. ]

"Market watchers said the action was bad news for SCO.

"'Unlike SCO, IBM has been very careful not to make inflammatory statements. So when IBM fires a broadside it is a very carefully prepared action, which will be very carefully executed,' said Gary Barnett, principal consultant at Ovum. 'If SCO is wrong, IBM is absolutely right to ask for compensation.'

"'IBM has more patents than anyone, and more money and more lawyers than SCO. SCO will be bled dry before it can make its case,' he added..."

Complete Story

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I'm hoping so anyway!  ...   Re: IBM Countersuit Could 'Bleed SCO Dry'   
Howard Pepper
Aug 7, 2003, 22:25:38
 
"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping ...   SCO: does this ring a bell?   
Bruce Cooper
Aug 7, 2003, 23:00:08
 
I'm hoping so anyway!My understandin ...   Re: Re: IBM Countersuit Could 'Bleed SCO Dry&#   
I R A Darth Aggie
Aug 7, 2003, 23:10:21
 
In the gladitorial match between SCO and ...   Let the games begin   
Joe User
Aug 7, 2003, 23:24:43
 
money from IBM.they will go to IBM and s ...   SCO is not the first one to extort   
billfish
Aug 7, 2003, 23:52:55
 
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!SCO has more enemies th ...   And the studio audience responds...   
copy_chief
Aug 8, 2003, 00:04:06
 
Let us not discount Micro$oft's hand ...   Forget not M$   
jessjr
Aug 8, 2003, 00:43:23
 
This won't REALLY be punitive if Noo ...   Hey, IBM - Check other Canopy corps!   
cr
Aug 8, 2003, 01:28:22
 
> Big Blue needs to have its patent depa ...   Re: Hey, IBM - Check other Canopy corps!   
flacco
Aug 8, 2003, 04:48:20
 
"IBM has more patents than anyone, and m ...   Betting MS Is Backing SCO, That's It   
Tomáš Marek
Aug 8, 2003, 05:12:58
 
You can only use patents against a compa ...   patents useless against SCO   
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Aug 8, 2003, 08:48:54
 
> In the gladitorial match between SCO a ...   Re: Let the games begin   
ac
Aug 8, 2003, 09:05:24
 
Actually the Patents are not useless at  ...   Re: patents useless against SCO   
Ray Larabee
Aug 8, 2003, 13:49:45
 
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