USENIX Letter to Congress Refuting SCO's Letter (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

USENIX Letter to Congress Refuting SCO's Letter (Groklaw)

Posted Mar 1, 2004 9:02 UTC (Mon) by Aguila (guest, #19832)
Parent article: USENIX Letter to Congress Refuting SCO's Letter (Groklaw)

It is really, really odd to see one matter where the Corporate and public interest come together; but this is certainly one. The GPL, if it is anything at all, is the union of individual inventors/creators in producing useful and viable projects we all use. During the era when the majority of society were villages, nobody thought seriously long at charging for the local spring. The concept of costs became clearer as the effort to convey clean water became harder and more essential. Our society is at that point again where nearly everyone has access to computers and a phone line the way every has access to a running faucet.

And even though few around the country have access to water as clear and fresh as NYC water is purported to be (versus bottled or other waters found throughout the country or the world) they have useable clean water from a faucet. Likewise for power, at least in the US, power is a flick of a local switch - a matter of course provided as a necessity in every house, and apartment. Where-ever is power, there can a computer be, even if the power is solar. Access via wireless "hot" spots, or phone means something we've never had before, as a society. Access from nearly anywhere nearly anytime, for work or for personal reasons. Open source code, in our time, is the equivalent of the paper clip or post-it note or nail in past eras.
SCO is trying to stop everyone and claim they own core Open Source code; gee why isn't someone trying to collect on the knowledge of the flint stone or the construction of an obsidian axe!

Anyway isn't that claim defunct yet, wasn't that code which SCO claims is theirs written out of GPL Linux kernels already? Or are they digging up something else because they haven't come up with anything new or current?
Goes to show you the class clown always shows up somewhere, maybe all the class clowns are at SCO and they need career guidance to find Comedy Standup? Coming to think of it, if they couldn't find that on their own they are about at the idiot level already anyway. They could be safely reassigned to the Post Office though.

O, I forgot, not yet -- we got to get rid of the prime and first "wannabe" warrior idiot in the White House before he finds just the right button to blow up the planet just out of spite in attempting to prove that he "is so" a tough guy.

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