[Nick Danger]

I would NOT like to be McBride tonight...

That's what I'm wondering... whether the bunch of them got their first clue today that all this noise they've been making just... might... be... a really huge, embarrassing, and possibly even criminal mistake.

At first they won't want to believe it, but within a couple of days the journalists who have — up to now — been their friends are going to start wondering if they've been had. And then the hard questions are gonna come. All these reporters have friends they trust with technical issues, and they're all going to be hearing the same thing. "If this is their smoking gun, they don't know what they're doing. This is worse than stupid, this is blind ignorance on parade."

Spies tell me that two large recipients of the SCO "threat letters" are looking for a few more like-minded companies to join them in a racketeering suit against SCO. They think they need 5 or 6 extortion targets to demonstrate the racketeering angle.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Spies tell me that two large recipients of the SCO "threat letters" are looking for a few more like-minded companies to join them in a racketeering suit against SCO. They think they need 5 or 6 extortion targets to demonstrate the racketeering angle.

Ugh! Well, if this was an intentional scam, McBride and his cronies deserve all that and more.

If it was an ignorant mistake.... well, we may just be seeing how evolution works after you remove all of the environmental hazards...

[Golden Eagle]

It's awful premature to be sipping champagne - I've still not seen anything showing this one example we've seen a screen shot of doesn't still belong to them. Without express rights for others to distribute it, it still belongs to ATT/SCO. So far I've heard it was in a book (without express permission to redistribute), and that some code may have been released by Caldera (but it said excluding Sys V), and that it was in BSD (which doesn't mean it still doesn't originally belong to SCO).

Notice not one media person has run with this underground Linux theory yet. Maybe tomorrow, but those pictures of this one slide are already a couple days old, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.