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From: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:22:03 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030311002203.GS90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030310234548.GO94647@wantadilla.lemis.com>

On 2003-Mar-11 10:15:48 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at  8:15:18 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>I think you mean me, not Warren.  Warren hasn't said anything yet.

Oops.  Sorry about that.  "My mind is going...  I can feel it, Dave"

>My concern is not whether it's genuine--I'm convinced it is.  My
>concern is more whether SCO's apparently bone-headed lawyers will
>believe it's genuine.

Taking the devil's advocate position, if my lawyers were convinced
that I'm made a particular statement, based solely on a piece of
e-mail given to them by my competition, I'd be in the market for
some new lawyers.

>> Whilst you could probably prove the authenticity of the e-mail, this
>> would cost real money - and SCO probably can afford to spend a lot
>> more money than you can.
>
>It's not clear how much money SCO has.

Probably more than you or I do...

>I am very sure that IBM has not put any UNIX code into Linux.

I'd be very surprised at this as well.  It would open a legal minefield.

Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-11  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-10  1:21 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-10  2:33 ` David C. Jenner
2003-03-10  3:28   ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-10 20:23     ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-10  3:13 ` Michael Davidson
2003-03-10 20:21   ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-10 21:15     ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-10 21:54       ` David C. Jenner
2003-03-10 23:45       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-11  0:22         ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2003-03-11  1:14           ` Gregg C Levine
2003-03-11  1:51             ` Warren Toomey
2003-03-11  1:59               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-11  3:51                 ` Warren Toomey
2003-03-11  4:11       ` Michael Davidson
2003-03-11  9:44         ` Sven Mascheck
2003-03-11 15:40           ` Gregg C Levine
2003-03-12  4:05             ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-12  4:46       ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-12  5:03         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-12 20:31           ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-12 20:33           ` Wm. G. McGrath
2003-03-11  3:51 ` Wm. G. McGrath
2003-03-10 21:52 Wesley Parish
2003-03-11  5:25 Dennis Ritchie
2003-03-11  6:01 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-12  4:34 ` Jeffrey Sharp

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