I'm sure a lot of us have spent a fair amount of time reading about and discussing this matter, so if you've been living underground and don't know what the heck I'm on about, I shan't recant at length about it - a swift google or a look at http://www.linux.org/news/sco/timeline.html will see you right.

So anyway, I expect people have heard about this, but here's some links anyway:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060221220214214

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060223040825533

Ignoring the unnecessary crowing for a minute, I'm skeptical about how IBM are going to make anything of this, but wouldn't it be marvellous if they did?

I'll bet the direct subpoena to MS is nothing more than an empty gesture evidence-wise, but there might just be a chance of catching them by the BayStars.

I'm not of the ilk that wring their hands and chant at night over the fate of Microsoft, but I can't help thinking that if their supreme arrogance dropped them in serious guano over a silly legal feint like this, the line of sympathisers would be mighty short.

Ten.