On: Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights

[saagarjha]

> The term Nazgûl has been used to refer to IBM's cadre of lawyers, with whom it has been said that IBM can blacken the sky - particularly with reference to the SCO v. IBM lawsuit because they supposedly never sleep, are utterly ruthless, and are completely loyal servants to their master.

I thought it was SCO who were the bad guys in that one?

[kick → saagarjha]

There were no good guys in that one. There was a bad guy who was wrong, and a bad guy who was initially right but then tried playing the exact same game on the other guy.