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Boies Keeps Swinging
Megalawyer David Boies, cheered on by the anti-Redmond crowd when spearheading the antitrust case against Microsoft, now has an ownership interest in the great Linux shakedown.
Boies' law firm has just been handed a big chunk of SCO Unix, whose business model consists of filing suit against Linux users. The whole sad, sad story is here.
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Sandy|11.19.03 @ 1:05AM|#
Boies loses a lot, doesn't he?
|11.19.03 @ 4:43AM|#
And often.
|11.19.03 @ 7:14AM|#
Funny how he's so wealthy, then.
mak_nas|11.19.03 @ 10:07AM|#
did anyone think a lawyer of boies' stature carried a principle to stand on? the anti-microsoft idealists should be ashamed of themselves for confusing a mercenary like boies for one of their own and cheering him on to greater riches.
voyager|11.21.03 @ 4:35AM|#
Someone was confused?
Of course Boies was/is a hired gun!
IMHO, we need to keep competition in the marketplace and out of the courtroom -- whether the competitor is Microsoft or Linux or SCO.
This isn't a task for government.