SCO as tactical diversion - from EU SW patents.

SCO as tactical diversion - from EU SW patents.

SCO's actions do not make sense even for microsoft and sun, the allegged puppetmasters, since in the long run, once SCO loses, linux will be strengthened.

By this view, a pump-n-dump scheme, though it may very well exist, does not in itself explain's MS's and sun's financial expenditure.

If these actions do not make sense by themselves, one must look for a larger context for an explanation. And the only reasonable interpertation I see is that SCO is a tactical diversion.

If this is true, then comes the question: What is the real maneuver, the actually effective action that the SCO feint is ment to cover up with deflating the SNR ?


The obvious answer is the European parlament software patent litigation which can, potentially, cause effective harm to FOSS, at least in the medium timerange.


And indeed, this SCO buisness, with its obvious lies, glaring half truths, and plain stupid incinerating statements, seems like a calculated, very successful flamebait.

Most of the FOSS-related and general media had enthusiastically taken the bait; just compare the numbers of SCO-related and EP-SW-patents-related articles and stories to see the result.

One has to wonder how this can be changed.