MS gain FUD if SCO lose

MS gain FUD if SCO lose

Yes, it's always better to win honestly (with no "stolen" code) and yes, the GPL wasn't designed to trap people with. (How ironic that MS would try to use the spin that way...) But actually, MS is right in a way... the GPL *was* initially designed to destroy their particular style of "intellectual property"--because they want to distort and twist the laws to their own profit by locking things up behind lawyers rather than making inventions and concepts open for all to use. That is exactly what RMS was trying to prevent by making the GPL--it is deliberately and inherently in conflict with their mindset and way of doing things. So I'm not surprised at all that they don't like it--one doesn't usually like a tack placed on one's chair. The problem for us is that we have to live (at least for now) in a situation where MS can make things unpleasant for those that dare to fall out of line in the sheep pen. And since (as you pointed out) the cards are mostly stacked against us in regards to the press and the US government, it may be very unpleasant for a while. But then again, any war is unpleasant. I myself keep going in this cause because I want my children to be able to have the freedom I grew up with before the greedsters got their hands in everything. Didn't a certain Mr. Jefferson once write, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."? Nothing great is achieved without struggle, and this seems to be such a time.