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September 22, 2003
More Stupid Internet things...
SCO suing IBM and trying to scare everyone else. So there's this linux company, Caldera, and they buy the remants of this x86 Unix Company, SCO and rename themselves. Having bought enough of SCO to have legal claim to IP and to become the 2nd party in several legal agreements, they now as seen as nothing more than leaches in the barrell. The conspiracy theorists (go team!) hint at the futility of their legal fight for their own benefit, but everyone seems to think that the only real outcome is the FUD created. The best conspiracy follows those who would benefit from the loss in faith of linux: strange bedfellows indeed: Microsoft and Sun Microsystems (2 SCO licensees!).
My favorite spin comes from the zealots like ESR (Eric Raymond) who not only throw logical well reasoned attacks, but the occasional emotion ad hominem insult. It basically chides SCO, claiming that they do not want to reveal the "infringing source" in Linux, because they don't want it out (even if it exist). Because they know that the "community" will remove it faster then the press release hits the street. And then their FUD is gone....
Posted by KnipSter at September 22, 2003 09:36 PM
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