Darl's motives
Message ID: 129502
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2004-05-03 10:54:00
Subject: Darl's Motives
Recs: 8
Part of the craziness of SCOX’s actions is that the words and actions of it’s executives have undermined a possibly solid contract case against IBM.
Think about it. The major sticking point in the IBM case is discovery, and the real problem there is that SCOX was shooting their mouths off in the summer about how they had found “millions of lines of literal copying”. Now they have to backpedal from that position in front of the judge, and that just does not look good.
The fact is, no matter what you feel about the contract aspects, there is no way in hell SCOX executives could ever have thought they actually possessed evidence of millions of lines of copied code. It is one thing to wear rose colored glasses, OK, you say you have an elephant when it is actually a mouse. They are both grey aren’t they? It is quite another when there is no way you could possibly believe what you are saying. It is called lying.
And it is one thing to lie, and another to be incompetent at it. Look how long and difficult it was to pin Clinton down on that. On the other hand, it got to the point were the words barely escaped Sontag or McBride’s lips when they were seen to be obviously false.
Now, I don’t think Cap’n Darl is stupid, so I wonder what he was thinking. Yeah, I know, stock scam, but it almost seems the stock was going up in spite of what Darl was saying, rather than because of it.
Well SOMEBODY had to get on topic, didn’t they?
< grin>
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Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2004-05-03 10:54:00
Subject: Darl's Motives
Recs: 8
Part of the craziness of SCOX’s actions is that the words and actions of it’s executives have undermined a possibly solid contract case against IBM.
Think about it. The major sticking point in the IBM case is discovery, and the real problem there is that SCOX was shooting their mouths off in the summer about how they had found “millions of lines of literal copying”. Now they have to backpedal from that position in front of the judge, and that just does not look good.
The fact is, no matter what you feel about the contract aspects, there is no way in hell SCOX executives could ever have thought they actually possessed evidence of millions of lines of copied code. It is one thing to wear rose colored glasses, OK, you say you have an elephant when it is actually a mouse. They are both grey aren’t they? It is quite another when there is no way you could possibly believe what you are saying. It is called lying.
And it is one thing to lie, and another to be incompetent at it. Look how long and difficult it was to pin Clinton down on that. On the other hand, it got to the point were the words barely escaped Sontag or McBride’s lips when they were seen to be obviously false.
Now, I don’t think Cap’n Darl is stupid, so I wonder what he was thinking. Yeah, I know, stock scam, but it almost seems the stock was going up in spite of what Darl was saying, rather than because of it.
Well SOMEBODY had to get on topic, didn’t they?
< grin>
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