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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 06:44 PM EDT |
Trials are also risky, jury's have been known to be less then sane (See
AppleVSamsung). So if SCO manages to get to the jury part of the trial, they
stand a small chance at temporary success. And lots of people (Microsoft, Apple)
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- Depends - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 11:39 PM EDT
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 08:24 PM EDT |
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2006-04-12 Backlink
Is the arbitration officially dead yet? I think
not.
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| Authored by: tknarr on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 01:59 AM EDT |
That's the thing: "a fortune" is relative. IBM's gross income for 2012 was
$49 billion. Their net income was $16 billion, or $25 billion if you
figure it by EBIDTA. Now, suppose SCO's impugning IBM's reputation and ethics
costs IBM just 1% of their net income a year for the next 20 years (a pretty
short timeframe, IBM has current equipment lines that're older than that).
That's $3.2 billion that it'll cost IBM to not fight this to a
conclusion. If you figure it's worth spending 10% of the potential cost on the
matter, that's $320 million.
To put that in scale, that's IBM walking
into their lawyers and saying "We want these guys squashed like bugs. Here's a
quarter-billion dollars to start, call us if you need more.". I figure even with
the kind of lawyers IBM hires, a quarter-billion buys you a lot of
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| Authored by: jjs on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 06:42 AM EDT |
They could have bought TSG for far less than what this trial
has cost back in the beginning, and they knew that. TSG
accused IBM broke a contract - and IBM lives and dies by
contracts. Also, IBM knows if they settle, every other two-
bit operation will come after them for money. So, IBM has a
vested interest in getting TSG to publicly retract that
statement and in turning TSG into a smoking Caldera in the
Utah desert as a lesson for those other companies.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
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