[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.34-BETA-2 (In your face, SCO!) is available

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Tue May 20 14:17:01 EDT 2003


On Tue, 20 May 2003, Nels Lindquist wrote:

> Jim McCullars wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 May 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>	* configure.in: Because of SCO's disgusting behaviour,
> >>	MIMEDefang will refuse to build on SCO UNIX or SCO Linux
> >>	unless you supply the --enable-running-on-scummy-sco configure
> >>	option.
> > 
> > 
> >    I thought you had gone off the deep end over the IBM lawsuit until I
> > saw this:
> > 
> > http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,81235,00.html
> 
> This gets better and better:
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1007528.html?tag=nl
> 
> Anyone surprised that Microsoft is involved?

They couldn't give money to SCO outright for their legal attack but they
could "license" something that they really didn't have to which puts a
spin on the money in the end.  It also lends some credibility to their
SCO's claim.  "See, Microsoft believes our claim has credit.  They've paid 
us licensing fees."

Lets say that I'm a big mob boss.  I can't outright give money to someone
shady for their legal attack on someone else.  I can however buy 100 heads
of lettuce for $1000 a head from one of their supposedly legit fronts.

An enemy suing another enemy makes your the first enemy your friend.

Justin




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