] Charles Dickens couldn't come up with a plot like this.
] The legal dispute in many ways underscores one of the
] operative principles of the high-tech industry: Namely,
] that it is really one big junior high school cafeteria.
] Everyone knows one other, but the alliances change all
] the time.

More of the connections between the principals -- McBride, etc -- and Novell, oldSCO, Caldera, etc.