sco's lastest blathering

[Tom Marinis]

Tom Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 05:34 pm, Tom Marinis's voice rose above the 
> ones in my head and stated:
> 
>>Tom Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>LMFAO. Found the link on /.  I don't even know what to say about
>>>this one because it is so far fetched.
>>>
>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031
>>>
>>>--Tom Wilson
>>
>>What do you mean, far fetched?
> 
> 
> Not saying the legal test is far fetched, just this arguement.  
> Copyright law invalidates a form of copyright (or copyleft if you 
> prefer).  

I'm in agreement with you, but this is the test argument
that many Linux supporters have feared would occur.  This is
the really last mountain to climb really, for Linux world
wide acceptance.

GPL is finally going to challenged in a FEDERAL court,
and if it is deemed in any way vague, mis-leading,
faulty, or maybe even politically incorrect, SCO's
case is made.  IBM will have to pay, and all the software
at the FSF must be under copyright.

That costs money, and guess who's got a lot of money
in the bank to spend to entice a lot of programmers out
there who haven't made almost any money for their software?

In this battle, its not code, but whoever has the deeper
pockets will win; MS, or IBM.

If the GPL wins, SCO not only loses, but MS loses in
a really really big way.  Unix will probably die within
5 years, with LINUX replacing it where ever possible.
Sun would be one of the biggest casulties to the UNIX
OS, and the LINUX OS.

Linux when compared to MS products, MS almost always looses;
think of the code that people are writing now for
any platform, and think about those writing for XP.

I would hate to port to Windows for Whistler, but I
could port a C program to almost any Linux or BSD/UNIX
platform  outthere, eventually.  It's happening now.
The only difference is that MS programmers are getting
paid, and make money doing so :)

If Microsoft does lose, it will still be around, but
probably in the Game console business, like Sony or
Dreamcast or even Intellivision, and you know what
happened to them.


Kurt's Right;  He should have greeted the corporate heads
from SCO at the front door at Caldera a few years
back with his shotgun.  Put some sense into them...