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Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sweet-sweet-irony dept.

An anonymous reader noted an article talking about the Samba Team's Statement to SCO. While Darl McBride blasts the GPL, his company simultaneously announces the use of Samba 3 in their OpenServer product. I'm not sure if it breaks my heart or boils my blood to read this stuff. Probably a little of both.

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  1. Lock SCO out of the market by Xeger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO's vicious and unwarranted attack on the free software community warrants a forceful response. We cannot stand by and let them destroy GNU/Linux while simultaneously profiting from the community's other efforts.

    In order to stop SCO dead in their tracks, here is what I propose.

    FSF should create a new version of the GPL that specifically forbids SCO, or any of its subsidiaries or related corporate entities, from using any software written under the license. The license should also prevent the software from being installed or used on any system running an SCO-supplied operating system.

    Someone at FSF could draft a standard version of this modified GPL license and call it GPL-SCO ("GPL minus SCO"). Starting with Samba, open source projects could switch over to the new license. The license changes probably wouldn't be retroactive, but at least SCO would be prevented from using future versions of the products.

    It's time to lock SCO down. Hit them where it hurts. They are a sinking ship and they will eventually die, but by eliminating their revenue and their customer base we make sure they die sooner rather than later.

    "Tell me, Mr. McBride...what good is a lawsuit, when you are unable to pay your legal bills?"