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Is the SCO Lawsuit a Good Thing for Linux?

Posted by michael on from the tetanus-shot dept.

Jack William Bell writes "The National Post is running an essay by Wynn Quon entitled 'Linux's lucky lawsuit'. In it Quon claims that (A) SCO is going to lose (saying ". . . SCO is a toad about to face a steamroller.") and (B) the Linux community needs exactly this kind of 'inoculation' as the OS moves from a hobbyist platform to a real business tool. Good analysis or unwarranted optimism?"

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  1. Re:Er... no by gbjbaanb · · Score: 0, Troll

    not necessarily - if the GPL wins, and the court conclusion is that anything with GPL code in it is GPL, then business will be very scared indeed. I may be able to open-source all my employers products by slipping in a few lines of some-GPLed routine. yikes!

    Alternatively, if the conclusion is that mixing GPL code into proprietary code doesn't affect the proprietary licence, then the GPL is effective useless. (or more likely, finally usable in the real world)