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.

Comments

[Sandy]

Boies loses a lot, doesn’t he?

[Weishaupt]

And often.

[R C Dean]

Funny how he’s so wealthy, then.

[mak_nas]

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]

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.