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Raymond and Perens respond to SCORaymond and Perens respond to SCOPosted Sep 11, 2003 9:41 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)In reply to: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO by paul Parent article: Raymond and Perens respond to SCO 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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