<OT> Even more on SCOdera vs IBM

[tom marinis]

--- "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:23:24 -0300
> "Federico Voges" <fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59266,00.html
> > 
> > <quote>
> > McBride added that SCO has no intention of killing off Linux
> with its
> > current legal actions, but instead is "trying to help Linux
> mature
> > past what has become an out-of-control development process."
> > </quote>
> > 
> > Yeah, right... and santa will give me an Audi TT for xmas :)
> 
> What he's trying to say is:
> Linux has no money to buy us out with, so we're not interested
> in it. 
> Then of course there's the slam against Linus Torvalds who has
> been
> patient, but should (IMHO) sue SCO for slander,
> misappropriation of
> Linux code in violation of the GPL, etc.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel

Never happen.  

Linus is to much of a moderate to do something so personally
extreme.  Linus reflects the thinking of a majority of
developers
within the"LINUX" community, and most of those 
people *hate* dealing lawyers, and only work with lawyers if
they 
have to.

And that is the opensource software community only real
weakness, and Linux as an OS could die from this.  


SCO has raised the ante and tossed another 2 suits
at IBM, at another billion each.  The suit SCO vs IBM now totals
some $3 Billion, so I don't see a forseeable end in sight for a
while in this legal monetary lawsuit mess.

SCO corporate must continue to pursue this course, since it 
made a promise to it's shareholders that it will endeavour to
return to profitability. So far, their stock has jump to past
$11.50 since the stock falloff.  So, their doing what they
promised.

Since SCO is a puppet of MS, and IBM is making to return to the
personal PC market, MS will make Linux a costly or at least 
unprofitable for IBM if it pursues further developement,
support,
advertising with/for Linux.  Microsoft can't get their feet 
wet in Linux, and it really pisses them off that a hobby OS
is taking market share away from them.

The only lawsuit left I'm waiting for, is for SCO to go after
the
GPL, and make the source code license for Linux invalid, and in
direct violation of the UNIX license.

I'm pretty sure OpenSoftware and the Linux kernel project will
die in about another 5 - 7 years after that, whether of or not
SCO is successful.


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