SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 159109 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: A Thousand Monkeys There is a theory that a thousand monkeys, working at a thousand typewriters for a thousand years will come up with Shakespeare. This theory is being put to the test in the field of legal "research" for the last several months, over at groklaw. (The original theory doesn't mention a head-monkey of course). Beating things to pulp is the name of the game at groklaw - they don't even leave out punctuation from their "analysis"! Well, perhaps, something worthwhile will still come out of all this someday, but meanwhile, the ibiblio servers will go down under the heavy load! This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 158547 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: true believers Most of the posters on this board ridicule who they call 'SCO true believers' - those that bought SCO stock in the hope that SCO will win its case against IBM. It turns out most posters here are themselves true believers. They have a number of favorite beliefs for which they don't demand evidence from themselves. Here are some of those beliefs. 1. Groklaw's debunking of SCO claims led to SCO's downfall. What exactly did groklaw debunk? SCO court filings were analyzed and some claims were shown to be false. Was this reported widely by the press? Journalists don't bother themselves with reading case filings for the most part, much less analysis of court filings. In fact, the most "public" debunking came from other sources - a couple of guys at lwn traced malloc's origin & Bruce Perens shared the findings with a few publications, red hat sued SCO challenging its claims of code thef