If you are interested in the
Pelican Equity litigation against Darl McBride and the gang,
here's an article in Capital Madrid, a Spanish financial newsletter, that provides some background on the parties. If you don't read Spanish, you can use Google Translate. Here's
the English translation.
The article particularly focuses on Robert Brazell's accomplishments, because one of his businesses is in the news in the Spanish language press, and it mentions that Steven Norris is "a friend of the Bushes and of Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud" ("amigo de los Bush y del príncipe saudí Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud").
I always remember at the beginning of the saga a SCO executive, Chris Sontag,
saying we shouldn't be surprised if the government submitted an amicus brief in the
SCO v. IBM case. That implied to me that they expected an appeal, at least, at which point they thought the government would support them, allegedly because of concerns about terrorists using Linux. If you recall, one of SCO's allegations in
its complaint is that IBM had violated export regulations.
Mozilla actually inquired about that issue in connection with Firefox, by the way, and it seems SCO's dreams were misplaced. It received a letter stating Firefox does not violate export regulations, which likely will impact the
IBM case. Of course, SCO executives have said a lot of things, so maybe that hope of an amicus brief was more a dream than not, and the administration has since changed, but then again, who knows? My job is just to let you know everything I find, and others can do the rest.
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