Wow, you'll defend anyone that attacks M$. You can't even admit that this guy made an idiot mistake.
You know the saying..."fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
(or as Bush said it). "Fool me once, Shame on you. Fool me twice...well you can't fool me again."
To become CEO I'd expect he's been around the block a few times, so this wasn't his first mistake. Bottomline he's in idiot or a liar.
I admit he made a big mistake. He took a gamble with possible returns in the nine or ten figures, and lost. A lot of people, including some on this board, believed SCO's hype about how strong a case they had.
AntiRepublic here so hates Microsoft he's willing to give IBM a free pass on them breaking their agreement with SCO to help develop the next Unix on Intel, and ruined them by helping flood the market with free Linux instead. They almost destroyed the entire US Unix market in the process, but thankfully it is recovering.
But there is justice in the world, despite his hate antiRepublic here has to work on M$ systems for a living! Is that not funny or what.