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[Australia] SCO Bans Press from Briefing, MS Exec Sees Possible Movie Plot from Licensing Story
Submitted by Willy Smith on 30 May, 2003 - 13:29.
Article from ZDNet, originally from Australia (English)
Article from ZDNet Australia (English)
'A statement released by the AUUG said "on the express wish of SCO, the press will not be admitted" to his briefing to the group's NSW arm in Sydney...'
'A senior Microsoft executive [MS Australia's competitive strategy manager Martin Gregory] has labeled some of the media reports about its decision to license the rights to Unix technology from the SCO Group as "better suited to the plot of a movie".'
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Information hiding versus information sharing. Ridicule and ad hominem versus substantiation and refutation. This particular battle more resembles a TV-gameshow-cum-media-circus than a chess game.