When widget production declines and along with it, revenues for such pools, decline, their lawyers and other "Wall Street" agents get the call to "do something about it."
The latest fashion is to practice money grubbing greed, by claiming property as your own, that either is not, or the property has been so long neglected by them, that they have lost track of it, and now are desparately disrupting all their neighbors with bullish forays through the garage in the middle of the night.
In such times, their lawyers will gladly take even more of their money and make war over every boundary line.
As with SCO... saddled with bad leadership and advice, now apparently so is the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute .
Alexis de Tocqueville is obviously unable to clear his name of that institute.
What we have here is an old fashioned range war, brought upon by what will eventually be likened to the "robber barons" of yore.
Microsoft is not the only company that can afford hired guns.
What Microsoft has not expected, nor SCO, nor Kenneth Brown & Associates, is that the people are much more organized and prepared to fight back.
Instead of like the old days, when the robber barons could rely upon the people being frightened away from the "rich lands."
What property belongs to Kenneth Brown, lawfully and legally, and what property belongs to SCO, lawfully and legally, is theirs, but none other.
What is most hurting them and Microsoft, is all their arrogance, which will be their undoing.
I've been around this stuff long enough to know that when a software company stops writing new software and starts suing their competitors, they're about done.