[vox] SCO suing IBM over their Linux activity

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On Fri, 30 May 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> what if the combined court cost, unwanted publicity and nervous
> customers turns out to be more expensive than buying SCO?

Its not just money, it would be in effect the principle of paying to set a 
bad precedent.  IBM has historically had many opportunities to just settle 
conflicts by acquisition and has usually opted to 'sit out' or 'smash' the 
opposition, because it functions as a deterrent.

z