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Betting on the favorite.
Betting on the favorite.
Posted Aug 12, 2003 12:03 UTC (Tue) by economy1 (guest, #13962)In reply to: Me, I don't like big gambles! by mla
Parent article: The text of IBM's counterclaims
The GPL was going to be tested in court at some point (that's ultimately the point of it, after all) and one can hardly imagine a better scenario than having IBM's legal resources vying to enforce its terms. I think open-source programmers should take heart. The only thing better would be if Microsoft were the GPL's champion. Reports are that some SCO management-types have been dumping stock recently as a result of all of this. Sounds like a good strategy...
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