SCO's new offensive
Posted Jul 22, 2003 6:54 UTC (Tue) by
jdthood (guest, #4157)
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SCO's new offensive
All this threatens seriously to damage Linux's reputation. It could do so
permanently. Linux developers have never taken serious precautions against
the possibility of plagiarism, so how can it ever be proved that Linux is
legally safe to use?
Let us recognize that a point has been scored against the Linux
community here.
Microsoft and SCO could have agreed upon this strategy in order to protect
the former's turf, and to milk the remaining value out of SCO for the
benefit of the latter's officers. The thought that that possibility is
factual grows in my own mind every day.
Whatever is really going on, we have to recognize that Linux is vulnerable
to this sort of attack and take more care in the future. If it turns out
that Linux is essentially unusable by business -- well, there's always
the Hurd ...
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