Now it gets dirty. It seems that no one but SCO knows what code they are suing over. I believe SCO has said they do not want to give away their case before court time and are keeping the offending code to themselves until then. So everybody is just guessing as to what exact intellectual property SCO is complaining about. So SOC could have just blown themselves out of the water by keeping secrets. At the end of the first link, look at the word extort, I think it should be exhort. A big difference between the two words, but the spell checker doesn't care.
Novell to Try to Shoot Down SCO IP Claims.
"We Intend to Aggressively Continue," SCO Responds to Novell
This is cutthroat: neat and clever and very, very vicious. I guess MS isn't worried about backlash: no one who might care is neutral. Anyone who might react to this sort of assault is already against MS. That's the way I see it anyway.
I had heard a few things about SCO and what it was doing, but I didn't know MS was involved. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out. Again, I might not care for their goals (I am opposed to them, even), but I can certainly respect this sort of maneuver.
Now, what are the courts going to do with it?
OT: Cutthroat Microsoft Tactic
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