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Giant PR Exercise
Those who suspect that the SCO lawsuit is a public relations stunt with no actual merit, and that ZDNet is among those who are participating in advancing this meritless PR fest, are given added ammunition in the form of this article.

The IBM subpoenas have been on the court docket, which is available on the web for anyone to see, since October 31. At the time this occurred, it was not considered newsworthy.

However, a Forbes reporter mentioned these subpoenas in an article yesterday, and -- guess what -- SCO has filed some subpoenas of its own, and THAT is the news brought to us by ZDNet.

These SCO subpoenas are so new that they do not appear on the court docket. In other words, they were probably sent out yesterday or the day before, when SCO heard from Mr. Lyons at Forbes that he was going to write about IBM's subpoenas.

Well, we can't have an article about IBM doing anything unless it is couched in SCO-is-winning terms, so out come some SCO subpoenas and all of a sudden that's newsworthy, where the IBM subpoenas were not.
Posted by: Robert Hahn   Posted on: 11/12/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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SCO...  FreeBSD | 11/12/03
Get it over with already  zoltrac | 11/12/03
It'll be interesting to see if this judge has the b@lls to do that . . .  Plain Logic | 11/12/03
Coerce or get information?  Robert Crocker | 11/12/03
That's what discovery is all about  Bill Weisgerber | 11/12/03
How odd  zd-spam | 11/12/03
Irrelivant  lenohere | 11/13/03
NOT irrelevant - It is a M$ issue  shawkins | 11/14/03
Yes, IBM (and all Linux users) Needs this settled  km4hr@... | 11/13/03
How odd  kpatton@... | 11/13/03
re: How odd  Still Lynn | 11/16/03
C'mon Bill!!! Wake up!  drew0570 | 11/12/03
Educate yourself  Robert Crocker | 11/13/03
Giant PR Exercise  Robert Hahn | 11/12/03
Here's the pump, dump coming in a couple of days  mdchaney | 11/12/03
It may be a giant.  Enton Eller | 11/12/03
What does the public think of SCO?  issthatso | 11/12/03
Subpoenaing(sp?) Stallman...  vdraken | 11/12/03
Well, Boies made some mock of BG  Bill Weisgerber | 11/12/03
Well, Boies made some mock of BG  zd-spam | 11/12/03
fight the axis of evils $CO - M$  screaming silence | 11/12/03
Fight the axis of evil  wadeprater | 11/12/03
Fight the evil with axes!  Still Lynn | 11/12/03
Or could it be...  Yen_z | 11/13/03
And the winner is...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/12/03
"real winners in this" action are the lawyers  Cardinal_Bill | 11/12/03
Maybe NOT a win for the TSG lawyers...  Rick S._z | 11/12/03
re: Maybe NOT a win for the TSG lawyers...  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
re: And the winner is...  Still Lynn | 11/12/03
You forget the SCO executives  IT_User | 11/12/03
Yes, I did ...  Still Lynn | 11/12/03
How so?  Bill Weisgerber | 11/12/03
How so? Are you really that dumb?  zd-spam | 11/12/03
Translation  vdraken | 11/13/03
Thank you, Pee Wee Herman ...  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
re: How so?  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
Missouri School Board/BPF assertion needs correcting  infosecgroupie | 07/01/04
Not shown to be true!  Bill Weisgerber | 11/12/03
Shown to be true but not perceived to be...  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
That sounds reasonable  Enton Eller | 11/12/03
Exactly!!  Art Royce | 11/12/03
Blake Stowell is an idiot  NT Admin | 11/12/03
Yeah, like a fox.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/12/03
don't eyeball me boy  blahblahblah | 11/12/03
Not a chance.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/12/03
Don is impartial - it is to laugh  bgoss@... | 11/13/03
Your failure to read and comprehend.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/13/03
Like the fox that threw br'er rabbit into the briar patch  zd-spam | 11/12/03
My track record?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/13/03
What? No smart reply?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/13/03
What? No smart reply?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/13/03
Code.  Cardinal_Bill | 11/12/03
re: Code [blue]  Still Lynn | 11/12/03
We're going LINUX full speed ahead - Only will stop if SCO shows code and  Plain Logic | 11/12/03
dragging on  blahblahblah | 11/12/03
FreeBSD ahead  FreeBSD | 11/12/03
re: FreeBSD ahead  Still Lynn | 11/12/03
prioritizing time  blahblahblah | 11/12/03
Court should give 1 week and then throw out suit as frivilous ...  Plain Logic | 11/12/03
SCALE '03  irabinovitch | 11/12/03
No papers at the courthouse  DaveAtFraud | 11/12/03
Quick update  DaveAtFraud | 11/12/03
kinda a bit like a divorce  lmaxwell | 11/12/03
"Battle heats up"  bayo0 | 11/13/03
System V v.4.0  jfalknor | 11/13/03
No more lies from *both* sides...  Chris.Papoudaris@... | 11/13/03
All for naught on SCO's part...  Yen_z | 11/13/03
SCO seems to thrive on doo-doo though ...  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
A million pages?!?  dragosani | 11/13/03
They were from the Darl McBride Memorial Library...  Yen_z | 11/13/03
More of the same tired SCO gamesmanship  Still Lynn | 11/14/03
Don't bother asking SCO execs, they dont know anything  cvos | 11/13/03
OSI Paper addreses issues  kvfelton@... | 11/27/03

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