On Sun, Aug 24, 2003, Brian K. White wrote:
.....
>It must say somewhere in the very early chapters of the "IT Industry
>Organization Operators Handbook" "Don't piss off all the hackers on the
>planet unless your servers are deep in a salt mine and not connected to
>the rest of the world and powered off and disassembeled. It doesn't matter
>if you are 'right'"

This relates to the adage relating to getting into pissing contests with
newspapers. It doesn't pay when your opponent buys ink by the barrel.

The SCO management actions are more akin to going into a battle of wits
unarmed. McBride's latest rants on IBM's financing the opposition sound
like a ``B'' movie villain.

Bill
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