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 15:25 UTC (Fri) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122)
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

> Clearly, the free model just about killed our company, and I
> would argue that it's going to kill a lot of other software
> companies if the GPL [General Public License] is able to gain a
> foothold and run rampant throughout the industry.

If the whole world, or half of the whole world, gets together and kill your business, I think it's pretty clear what it means. I think it is time for every user to review the GNU manifesto to understand why the GNU project even gets started, what it is targetted at, and why one would support it. You will understand that the "killing" is on purpose, and that it *does* tries to force all businesses to abandon their business models that base their revenue from dividing people into those who has paid the license fee and those who hasn't, and forbid the former type from helping the latter. It also tells exactly why it is a bad idea.

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

Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:43 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Mmmh... I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

I'm quite convinced that all Mr McBride is doing is reaching out to those who are susceptible to sentiments along the lines of the "GPL is like cancer" nonsense. And his notion of "free" is quite wrong in this context, like most of his remarks meant to mock, provoke, or mislead.

This IMHO is the most difficult aspect of this whole "discussion" (if you can call it that): it's just too much lies, half-truths, slander and downright nonsense, there's no point in taking it seriously. But obviously the general public will be influenced by it. Maybe it's time to take on SCO on a slightly higher level: instead of merely insisting they show us the code -- sticking to the facts --, we hit them hard in the credibility ballpark.

Suggestions?

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

Posted Sep 12, 2003 16:44 UTC (Fri) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link]

Suggestions?

Short SCOX and wait for ESR to drop The Bomb on them.

If SCOX was any more shorted it would glow and melt

Posted Sep 16, 2003 10:30 UTC (Tue) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

There ain't no shares available for the purpose.