In the deep south, where I grew up, it is common to see vultures (we call'em buzzards) circling over some dead creature below, and if you get near to where the prey is, to see them perched in trees waiting for just the right degree of decomposition to set in before they feast.
I was reminded of the circling buzzards today reading the latest about SCO Group at Groklaw. All of McBride's, Sontag's, and Stowell's lies are circling around their heads like big black birds coming home to roost, and wait for the corpse to be just rotten enough to eat.
After all their noise about "millions of lines" of code copied verbatim into Linux, they are now losing case after case and having to retreat from their previous positions. The lawyers in this case must love Darl McBride for all those press releases and public statements about the SCO case, all of which now are exposed as lies, lies, lies. And I am fairly sure that that affects the judges' inclinations when it's time to rule in all those cases. Even though none of Darl's crap has been admitted into evidence, it's out there, and all else being equal, will a judge rule in favor or against a prolific liar?
Posted on July 23, 2004 04:07 PM