Note to the SCO-backers
Message ID: 235611
Posted By: karl_w_lewis
Posted On: 2005-02-13 07:38:00
Subject: Note to the SCO-Backers
Recs: 25
'Kay, Biff, Butter, QNx, Ledite, and all your various nyms, (mini, suits, blue, rat, etc.),
Listen up. (Really, this constitutes fair warning; it is posted in public.)
This SCAM has drifted, slowly, slowly downhill since December of 2003. You remember, right? That was the first real court hearing on discovery. And the Conference call at the end of that month.
From that time all of us who have been paying attention knew that this was going to work like a slow-motion train wreck - there's nothing that can be done to stop it, however long it takes, and, it is hard to look away.
The thing about train wrecks that *you* need to understand, is that at the end, when metal meets metal, things start to happen very, very quickly. Pieces come flying off, whole, loaded cars get pitched way up in the air. The point is that individual pieces absorb the momentum of the whole train, and that makes for some shockingly high velocities of individual parts. Even if filmed in slow motion, some parts will be moving too fast for the cameras to capture.
By now you'll have seen that the Canopy/Noorda complaints are posted on-line. This is the beginning of metal to metal part of this train wreck. If you stay here, you will almost certainly wind up caught in the wreckage. The agonizingly slow pace that brought us here might have lulled you into a false sense of security. The pace is going to pick up from here on out.
KWL
There, that's my stake in the ground; if you stick around I assure you, I will be saying: "I told you so."
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Posted By: karl_w_lewis
Posted On: 2005-02-13 07:38:00
Subject: Note to the SCO-Backers
Recs: 25
'Kay, Biff, Butter, QNx, Ledite, and all your various nyms, (mini, suits, blue, rat, etc.),
Listen up. (Really, this constitutes fair warning; it is posted in public.)
This SCAM has drifted, slowly, slowly downhill since December of 2003. You remember, right? That was the first real court hearing on discovery. And the Conference call at the end of that month.
From that time all of us who have been paying attention knew that this was going to work like a slow-motion train wreck - there's nothing that can be done to stop it, however long it takes, and, it is hard to look away.
The thing about train wrecks that *you* need to understand, is that at the end, when metal meets metal, things start to happen very, very quickly. Pieces come flying off, whole, loaded cars get pitched way up in the air. The point is that individual pieces absorb the momentum of the whole train, and that makes for some shockingly high velocities of individual parts. Even if filmed in slow motion, some parts will be moving too fast for the cameras to capture.
By now you'll have seen that the Canopy/Noorda complaints are posted on-line. This is the beginning of metal to metal part of this train wreck. If you stay here, you will almost certainly wind up caught in the wreckage. The agonizingly slow pace that brought us here might have lulled you into a false sense of security. The pace is going to pick up from here on out.
KWL
There, that's my stake in the ground; if you stick around I assure you, I will be saying: "I told you so."
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