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NY Times Reveals SCO/Canopy Group Hypocrisy
rjamestaylor writes "The New York Times reports that 'SCO, the company that touched off a computer industry slugfest last spring by suing I.B.M. over its use of Unix software, may find itself embarrassed by a similar claim against a company once related to SCO.' Note that the reporter, John Markoff, ties together Noorda's Canopy Group companies, revealing that: 'Canopy is now SCO's largest shareholder, with two seats on the company's board, and has played an important role, analysts say, in shaping SCO's legal strategy.' He even quotes SCOSource shill Laura Didio as saying, 'All roads lead to Canopy...'"
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR KDE USERS: The Canopy group is a major part owner of TrollTech -- the people who provide the toolkit upon which the KDE desktop is built. Due to the license abuse (do just take it as safe when advocates shout about Qt being GPL), any commercial software vendor wishing to write software for the KDE desktop *must* obtain the permission -- via a fee of $3000 PER DEVELOPER -- of Trolltech (and by extension Canopy and SCO). Surely, you can see that this is unacceptable. Your desktop is all but dominated by the very group of people who are trying to gain control of Linux IP and destroy the GPL!
Do not use KDE... you are simply playing into their hands and making future IP grabs by TrollTech/Canopy/SCO exceedingly likely.