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Raymond and Perens respond to SCORaymond and Perens respond to SCOPosted Sep 10, 2003 15:38 UTC (Wed) by paul (guest, #14971)In reply to: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO by sphealey Parent article: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO Your comment "Who exactly appointed or elected Eric Raymond as the spokesman for the "open source community"? Other than himself?" is both ridiculous and not useful. There is no specific "spokesman" for opensource. We are a community of individuals who speak for ourselves. As you may note Eric and Bruce were both named in SCO's open letter. They were simply speaking for themselves and for anyone in the community who appreciates there work, which I am one. These accusations of SCO MUST be answered. We are not all in a position to do so. If you do not agree with the position that these men have given, then publicly state your own position on SCO and stop bashing those that do.
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Raymond and Perens respond to SCO Posted Sep 11, 2003 9:41 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link] Mr McBride in his letter really seems to be talking to the corporate world -- to the decision makers who are seriously considering either buying a SCO license or refraining from using Linux. The letter is deliberately and explicitly addressed to "the" Open Source Community, and it accuses this group of people as a whole of participating in criminal acts, as if there were such a group.That, of course, is what he would like these decision makers to believe: that there is a conspiring group of hairy communists out there, who spend their time setting up DoS attacks and stealing code in a desperate attempt to get corporations to use their (stolen) software. SCO's letter is filled with lies, insinuations and slander like this. We -- the Open Source Commmunity, whatever it may be -- know that all this is ridiculous, but do the decision makers know it too? Mr McBride apparently (and maybe rightly) believes that in this respect the Open Source community is very much a sitting duck -- it can never defend itself against these accusations (it's sort of like an analog DoS ;-). That's why it is important that there are a few people who can and do respond, even though I do not agree with them completely. Hey, it's almost like politics. (If I ever get my OSC membership card, I'd like to have proper elections. ;-)
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