[NCLUG] local end-user support

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:04:59PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>collect. "Never try and sue poor people" he said, which  I guess is good
>advice, in a way, but that attitude is also a lot of what's wrong with

The inverse is also true however.  One of the older "supercomputer"
companies, I want to say it was Sperry, successfully sued IBM.  However, it
nearly bankrupted the company before it was able to complete the lawsuit.
I remember one account of it saying that it was really hard watching the
IBM lawyers arrive in limousines to pick up the documents for discovery...

People who think for a second they are going to be able to successfully sue
an Oracle or Microsoft over software performance issues are just dreaming.

Sean
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