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SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)Posted Sep 12, 2003 16:26 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld) by rknop Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld) The whole SCO bunch (before Caldera and then after) were doing a fine job at killing SCO Unix from way before any "open source threats". OTOH, there are others thriving on OSS right now. The problem is that the ones on the loosing side of the current fight are the ones that have the money and the power to make OSS' life extremely miserable. OSS has very little to oppose them in their own terms. It will be some form of guerilla warfare... and this has worked in the "real world" only against some kind of colonial power, who eventually got fed up, packed, and left (happened in the US, in the spanish colonies in south america, India, Afganistan with the USSR, Vietnam, ...). Where it was tried against local governments (with no other place to go), it usually failed miserably. Unless said local government was so inept and corrupt as to be universally hated (as it was in Cuba before Castro). In our case, the MSFTs and their ilk do very well know just how far they can turn the screw so as to get their constituencies upset, but not too angry at them. SCO is overdoing it, but only as a desperate last measure. Or perhaps their C?Os are doing it for personal short-range gain, might as well get some $$$ out of the sinking ship as it is going down anyway.
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