Maybe, but.... [LWN.net]

Maybe, but....

Posted Jul 24, 2003 19:27 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222)
In reply to: The SCO Group Is Counting their Chickens Before They've Hatched by llywrch
Parent article: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

...the problem here is that there are other people who have jumped onto the "Linux may be dangerous because of SCO" bandwagon. At least the Germans have done something about it. However, SCO hasn't been shut up in the U.S. So, we get stuff like this one at NewsForge, which points out that Gardner Group is advising against Linux deployment.

These kinds of problems are the ones that might be good to look into before any trial, because SCO is making all kinds of umproven allegations, and people who don't like Linux are using those allegations to advise businesspeople.

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Maybe, but....

Posted Jul 24, 2003 20:11 UTC (Thu) by dsime (guest, #5764) [Link]

This sounds like the tactic that MS used against Java.
They muddied the language which stalled the adoption of the language.
You know;
"We can't adopt Java until we find out if the MS extensions will be allowed"

Now we have;
"We won't be able to adopt Linux until we find out which way the SCO/IBM suit falls"

Maybe, but....

Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:26 UTC (Fri) by llywrch (guest, #9903) [Link]

People have been advising against use of Linux for years. Amazingly, I can't think of anyone who is claiming that the SCO lawsuit threatens Linux users who weren't in that group that has been advising against Linux. (Well, there's Laura DiDio, but I had never heard of her before she chimed in on the lawsuit.)

Back in high school, my science teacher repeated the cynical observation that for any new scientific theory to be accepted, you have to wait for all of the old scientists to die. It apparently applies to adopting Open Source software; almost all of its current critics apparently will refuse to acknowledge it as a viable solution to their death beds, no matter what the evidence is.

Geoff