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Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL
hobsonchoice writes "SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers won't be sued. The same does not seem to apply if using a non-SCO distribution such as RedHat." LightSail points to the SCO letter itself, and raises an interesting point: "If they approve the use of 'their' IP in Linux in a single kernel, then the GPL holds that IP SCO allows to be used by a select few must be freely released to any and all. It appears that all Linux users everywhere were just given a license to continued use of Linux even if SCO would win their suit with IBM." And Haikuu writes "eWeek recently posted an interview conducted by e-mail exchange with Linus Torvalds regarding his recent move to the OSDL and the SCO suit."
...that is the single most fucked up post i've ever read on..any site..period.
i mean...wow..i'm sitting here at work, and it just blew my mind.
your sins into me, oh my beautiful one.
How many people will be shorting SCO stock tomorrow morning?
Ha, I shorted 1000 shares today... well, as a fun virtual exercise.
BIll Gates must be sitting back in his $5000 leather chair, with his feet up on his $10000 mahogany (oak, teak or whatever) desk, smiling a smile bigger than the cheshire cat and thanking his lucky stars that those stupid Linux developers adopted the GPL.
Does it really matter? Isn't the fact that MS is willing to support windows one of it's selling points?
People buy windows because they can get support for it, why should they be pissed off if someone tells them to call Microsoft and get support for it?
War is necrophilia.
No, I tell them that I have been screwed by MS Operating systems for fifteen years, and that I won't propogate the situation any more. I give some smart-assed advice which is the the actual solution and walk away. They know me and they don't dis Linux because they don't know that it exists, and I don't tell them either. I just say I hate Windows and leave it up to them to find an alternative. I'm not an advocate anymore, been there, done that. I just let them flounder in their own ignorance.
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