MS gain FUD if SCO lose [LWN.net]

MS gain FUD if SCO lose

Posted May 20, 2003 15:06 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: MS gain FUD if SCO lose by rknop
Parent article: The fear war against Linux (News.com)

Well, yes, all that is true... but then I guess the USA will just keep sliding farther behind the rest of the world in technology, won't it? Do you think the hackers in India, Brazil, et. al. particularly want the USA to be always in front? I daresay they (we?) wouldn't mind if the jingoists got humbled once in a while. If MS wants to squander the US technology industry and give it away for the sake of more money for them, then I guess the rest of the world will gladly take the lead (and the future).

MS gain FUD if SCO lose

Posted May 20, 2003 20:42 UTC (Tue) by bcw1000 (guest, #11345) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe. Our PM, Helen Clark, is working hard to get Free Trade agreements with the US - many countries are. This often requires dependent agreements on legal issues.

So, the legal climate in the US can strongly influence other countries via the markets. The market decides, and if the strongest market is the US...

I don't like it, but smaller, poorer countries don't have much to sell to each other to rely on without the "US centric" global economy.

MS gain FUD if SCO lose

Posted May 22, 2003 14:13 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

Tragic, innit?

The strange thing is, by being the world's trade clearing-house and having all commodities denominated in dollars, the USA is actually utterly dependent on the rest of the world. If only we were to trade in something else (euros, or gold), America would be humbled.

I got a spam advertising septic tank equipment the other day... I thought it was a joke email from Australia. But no, it was an American spam, advertising septic tank equipment.

Jonathan