>If you believe the ligitigants get the money - guess again. It is the trial lawyers. Class action suits are one of the biggest rip offs that sucessful businesses face today.
Sure. In fact, I am not arguing that SCO made a smart move - only that they did it! In fact, I understand that, in the case of SCO, the results were economically disastrous for them. Despite the cash infusion from Microsoft.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)