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Motley Fool: The Mouse That Roared

[ Thanks to phil
for this link. ]

“New regulations have made it harder for small-cap companies to
get noticed, but this is certainly not the case for The SCO Group.
Whether you like him or not, CEO Darl McBride is a master of PR. In
March, he sued IBM for $3 billion, hiring ‘take-no-prisoners’ law
firm Boies Schiller & Flexner, and raising a cool $50 million
to pay for the battle.

“Of course, mega-message PR has a downside: It demands a steady
flow of mega messages. Last week, McBride declared in an open
letter, ‘There is a group of software developers in the United
States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the
approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress … The
future of the global economy hangs in the balance…'”


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