Silver, Gold ... if someone out there has money to burn

[Spartacus]

now would be a great time to try to take Silver off the COMEX using genuine COMEX receipts.

I've read (I think from David Morgan) that COMEX refuses to deliver sometimes, claiming "no legitimate business reason"). You can say you're selling on eBay at 30% higher prices than COMEX ... rock solid legitimate business reason.

If they refuse (this is where "money to burn" comes in), sue them.

I don't know anything about US law, but watching the freakshow / circus sideshow that is the SCO Group versus IBM and Novell and the entire Linux world leads me to believe one ought to be able to really shake things up - if you have the resources.

The rules for discovery, if they can be applied against COMEX would yield some interesting details.

They could not be made public, but the plaintiff's law firm and consultants could see them, setting up interesting possibilities for further lawsuits, depending on what emails went on internally in response to Butler's requests ... these would be discoverable too.

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Re: Silver, Gold ... if someone out there has money to burn

Spartacus:

Discovery is the greatest ally of the side with the biggest lawyer retainers.

Nothing like being able to root through the entirety of your target's files trying to find evidence of wrongdoing.

[Spartacus]

Re: Silver, Gold ... if someone out there has money to burn

Spartacus:

Discovery is the greatest ally of the side with the biggest lawyer retainers.

Nothing like being able to root through the entirety of your target's files trying to find evidence of wrongdoing.

Exactly my point. One of the lawyers commenting on the SCO v IBM case wrote (paraphrased)

"everything SCO has done, but especially the demands for billions of pages of discovery lead me to believe SCO has no case but is looking for something to blackmail IBM into a settlement"

for those who don't know, SCO had demanded all the code IBM had written for the last 30 years for all of their products - all database, operating system, word processing products ... everything. for a case that was supposedly about a very limited amount of code at the start.

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Re: Silver, Gold ... if someone out there has money to burn

Spartacus,

The patent troll company whose founder plays a central role in the book 'Mother of Storms' has plenty of real world equivalents.

In fact, odds on are that you have either a cell phone using 'technology' from one such company or a company using memory from another.

SCO is just following in well proven footsteps.