SCO's earnings report [LWN.net]

SCO's earnings report

Posted Aug 14, 2003 20:09 UTC (Thu) by dkite (guest, #4577)
In reply to: SCO's earnings report by arcticwolf
Parent article: SCO's earnings report

I humbly make a prediction. For next monday's regular SCO press release.
Maybe the week after. Whatever.

SCO will be the founding member of an organisation called, say, Americans
for the Survival of Software Business. The goal of the organisation will be to
challenge the legality of 'business destroying free software, especially GPL'ed
software'. They will be taking contributions from members, establish a fund for
pursuit of GPL and related legal claims. Another goal will be to change
copyright laws to make it difficult to release free software.

One well known large software firm will make a large contribution.

They will have talking heads that will be quoted in the media everytime Linux
or other free software is mentioned.

Derek

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SCO's earnings report

Posted Aug 14, 2003 21:38 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]

Interesting point indeed, but I hope you're wrong! Then again, isn't the ISC (better known as the Initiative for Choosing Microsoft) already going along this path? What could emerge is simply a stronger and more vocal version of that. The self-declared capital of "freedom" is being coerced into mounting a war against freedom, and most people don't even know it's happening. Worrying indeed.