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All the bloggers I read are so busy finding deep meanings in the Gore endorsement of Dean that they don’t give enough weight to the obvious aspects of the timing. The past 7-10 days of the Democratic contest have seen the candidates begin to go overtly negative about each other, even in TV ads. That helps Bush and hurts the eventual nominee whoever he is.
If you are Al Gore, the thing you want most out of this next election is for Bush to lose. Preferably to lose big. If Bush were to win, it could have some retrospective legitimating effect on the 2000 election. If Bush loses, and especially if he loses big, history will be brutal. If I were Gore that is what I would most want.
By endorsing now, Gore helps cement Dean’s frontrunner status and cuts down on (nothing short of a Clinton endorsement can eliminate) the internecine sparring that is grist for the Republican mill in the general election. That’s canny. It’s also statesmanlike.
The only part of this I don’t understand is the failure to make at least a courtesy call to Lieberman. One would think he was owed that, unless there is some hidden bad blood somewhere. Lieberman was not very helpful to Gore during the period after the election, while Florida was in doubt, and perhaps that has something to do with it?
Old news I’m just catching up on…
Sounds like justice grinding slowly forward to me: SCO Loses First Legal Round in Linux Battle
A federal [magistrate] judge told SCO it has 30 days to respond to IBM’s demands for details about the Linux code SCO claims encroaches on its intellectual property.Magistrate Brooke C. Wells said that SCO will have to answer IBM interrogatories 12 and 13, which demand that SCO produce “all source code and other material in Linux … to which plaintiff (SCO) has rights” and describe exactly how SCO believes IBM infringed these rights. The judge’s order will be put into place on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
In addition, Ogden, Utah-based SCO must reveal all instances in which it has distributed Unix source code in ways that would lead to it being legally added to Linux. This ruling addresses a contention by Linux advocates that any Unix code in Linux was placed there by SCO itself.
In short, SCO will have to show IBM proof that its claimed “million lines of code” are actually in Linux, and that IBM, not SCO, was responsible for illegally placing the code there.
Which, if you’ve been reading your Groklaw it is exceedingly unlikely that SCO can do…