[H-GEN] Sad day for Linux

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> On Mon, 26 May 2003, David Thorndike wrote:
>> SCO nows says that anyone using linux without paying
>> SCo a licensing fee is breaking copyright laws.

> The mis-quotatations of Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens featured on the
> SCO web site are below contempt.  They are so clearly mis-quotes that at
> first I honestly thought SCO was making a late April fool's day joke.
> Mis-quoting indiviuals is a pathetic attempt by SCO to lend credence to
> their untenable position.

There's a wonderful refutation of SCO's claims on the OSI website.
Hey, OSI is good for something after all!

> [1] Or is sold off for scap metal by IBM.  IBM had been considering buying
> SCO before they were sued by them.

Then SCO's suit could well have been a last-ditch attempt to get IBM
to buy them, just to make the legal hassles go away.  That's probably
the most reasonable explanation I can come up with.
-- 
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