SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld) [LWN.net]

SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

Posted Sep 12, 2003 14:09 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

Everyone keeps talking here about how little coverage rebuttals are getting, yet none of you who are in the commercial Linux business frame seem to have any idea how to correct that.

If you believe the issue is money, then why don't you go to IBM or Red Hat and get some?

Point: I've been using Linux with little or no friction since 1994, but for non-commercial purposes, on my own personal computer. None of this crap was going on, to any notable degree, until I started reading that financial institutions were developing an interest in Linux.

For all the years I was using it, I have been advocating for it in my own sphere of interest. Now, companies are suing each other over it, people are complaining that the Linux side of the story isn't getting enough coverage, and no one with *money to gain* by helping out is responding, as far as I can see, in a way that sets the record straight, in public.

What does that mean?

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SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

Posted Sep 13, 2003 3:36 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

You simple cant.

Linux/OSS due to his "disrupting" of tradicional software business will be for a the foreseeable future, a target for the meritless financial street "Wise Guys" like SCO and McBride, and ignored by the press controled by the bigger Bosses and Ma$ters,..., way up to its government puppets,..., anywhere!

It means that when IBM hit them, they will *king*hit* them

Posted Sep 16, 2003 10:27 UTC (Tue) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

IBM subpoenaed not The SCO Group, but The Canopy Group, controllers of The SCO Group. Think about that for a minute.

Now reflect on how obviously, theatrically childish D'ohl's reactions have been so far. Imagine that he's seen the subpoena and panicked, and shredded some stuff.

Now imagine that IBM have legitimate copies of that stuff.

Now imagine D'ohl in a Federal Pen, having (as someone else so quaintly put it) changed his name to Trixiebell in order to feel better about his relationship with his neighbours.

Now imagine that this is only one potential avenue of attack, and IBM is covering them all.

I'd be surprised if IBM wanted to not so much defeat the lawsuit as make it absolutely clear to anyone else who wants to try a similar stunt that it would be a very, very bad idea. In legal terms, I think they want to eradicate the whole family to three generations out, their staff, pets, anyone who owes them money or to whom they owe money, burn their belongings, turn any property they own into flat desolate gravel, well... you get the idea.