As usual, not much good can be said about SCO's statements. Not only has SCO apparently badly missed deadlines (started too late, caught off guard by Christmas - if they have such problems with the calendar, I'm hardly surprised =), they also still haven't provided explicit information about copies, but only mentioned general subsystems. And they're demanding 90 more days after IBM gave them even more versions of AIX and Dynix.

All of this stinks of stalling tactics, especially since SCO has started building an international distribution network for their hot air. The fact that they're demanding truckloads of source code versions and documentation also points to these stalling tactics - SCO couldn't possibly work through these mountains of information in 90 days.

I'm curious to see what IBM gets out of this in court and how the court will react. Maybe SCO will simply be thrown out of court, since according to some opinions on Groklaw, what SCO is delivering in no way meets the court's demands.

Compared to SCO, the Softram executives of those days were solid businesspeople who at least had a somewhat realistic business plan.

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