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ZDNet UK: Who Stole SCO’s Lollipop?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 16, 2003

[ Thanks to Nicholas Donovan
for this link. ]

“Is SCO’s decision to send in the lawyers a valid business
decision or a petulant reprisal at the playground bully? At best,
the company appears to have the same grasp of reality as the former
Iraqi information minister

“I hate to say it, but I can’t help feeling that SCO is behaving
rather like a belligerent child who has had its lollipop stolen.
You could say that SCO is doing nothing more than protecting its
intellectual property, and doing that in the most obvious way: by
calling in the lawyers. Well, it’s the lawyers who tend to lend
that belligerent quality to any argument. It always ends in tears,
and there’s never, really, a good excuse…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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