The SCO tax - part of a bigger plan?

The SCO tax - part of a bigger plan?

Posted Aug 7, 2003 13:56 UTC (Thu) by DaveK (subscriber, #2531)
Parent article: The SCO tax

Although the current SCO attack is directed at the Linux Kernel, can we be sure that Linux alone (and SCO's short term financial gains) is the real target, and that this is not part of a bigger plan?

Lets assume that the doomsday scenario plays out, and the contradictory licensing issues stop Linux in its tracks. The following chain of events is likely to ensue:

• The FUDsters who oppose OSS and particularly the GPL will have a field day as they receive overwhelming ammunition for their FUD campaigns.
• The attack is opened up on *BSD and Gnu/Hurd etc. under the OSS banner.
• Industry doesn't think that OSS is such a wise move after all, and rather than 'just switch to *BSD', decides to 'play safe' and return to proprietary closed source solutions.
• A certain well known proprietary vendor - alligned with SCO - (no prizes for guessing who) goes into celebration overtime, and laughs all the way to the bank.
• OSS is dismissed as a yesterday's unfashonable fad and fades away - or is at least set back at 10 years.

Remember that to most people OSS == Linux, this would soon become Linux == Bad_News and by inference OSS == Bad_News.

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