SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld) [LWN.net]

SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 24, 2003 13:27 UTC (Thu) by cpm (subscriber, #3554)
In reply to: SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld) by pyellman
Parent article: SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

I very much agree.

Essentially, once the US dept of justice gave Microsoft a pass in it's
settlement of the anti-trust litigation, a large number of folks felt that MS
would begin attacking the GPL by proxy within the next two years (read now)
and would continue to do so as long as they had the money.

Well, they have the money. The SCO-MicroSoft link is pretty evident This
is an attack on the GPL, and it only benefits MicroSoft and a handful of
top SCO people who will in the end retire from MicroSoft eventually.

This whole thing isn't really about SCO at all. Sure, it's an exit strategy
(pretty good one) for the top SCO shareholders. Once upon a time, this was
called market fraud. But even that is a side-show. The big show is MicroSoft
vs. everybody else -specifically the GPL in this case, and it has been for a very long time.

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