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SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)Posted Aug 20, 2003 22:59 UTC (Wed) by jdthood (guest, #4157)In reply to: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) by dkite Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) They aren't so stupid. First of all, they're getting richer at the expense of the fools who are buying SCO stock these days. Perhaps the manager of your mutual funds is one of the fools? Second, they have rather intelligently figured out that the growing body of GPL software is a threat to the entire proprietary software industry and quite predictably they have declared war against it. They are using all the weapons at their disposal: lawsuits, FUD, ideological rants, sob stories about stolen property. Their campaign hasn't worked too well so far, but it is far too early to tell whether or not it will work in the end. If SCO keeps this up long enough then I fear that a lot of corporate users will decide that Linux isn't safe to use. There is also the phenomenon, brought to our attention by a famous leader of the twentieth century who shall remain nameless, of the bigger falsehood being more credible than the smaller one. The mere fact that SCO is willing to make such bold claims will lead the clue-impaired to think "They wouldn't say that if they didn't have something to back it up!" This story just gets more and more interesting every day. In the beginning I thought it was a petty attempt to extort some money from IBM but it is escalating into a battle royale between two competing systems of software production. And it is clear that this is just part of larger war between the right and the left over the domain of the intellect. In case you hadn't noticed, the right is winning, so it is unwise to be complacent.
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