2nd July 2003, 9:50 AM
Saving them, how much in the long run, in comparison to how much they loose for agreeing to this.
Fact is, it's the group that's stuck anyway. If MS doesn't comply, MS will instead sue them. If the info gets out, guess who gets sued for damages as a result of going through on the extortion threat? If they drop the threat and release it NORMALLY however, MS can't sue them for the whole damages as a result of blackmail deal. That's their only choice lest they actually WANT to be sent to the streets working JUST to pay MS. I'm sure they don't want that.
Fact is, it's the group that's stuck anyway. If MS doesn't comply, MS will instead sue them. If the info gets out, guess who gets sued for damages as a result of going through on the extortion threat? If they drop the threat and release it NORMALLY however, MS can't sue them for the whole damages as a result of blackmail deal. That's their only choice lest they actually WANT to be sent to the streets working JUST to pay MS. I'm sure they don't want that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)