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."

Comments

Re:SCO thinks the GPL is a joke

[Malcontent]

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?

Re:SCO thinks the GPL is a joke

[The_Dougster]

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.