Bob Young's Open Letter to SCO/Darl McBride

Oskie-wee-wee writes "Infoworld is carrying a story about Bob Young (Red Hat, Lulu, Classy Formal Wear, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, etc.) and his open letter to SCO and Darl McBride - in response to Darl's open letter 'defending, in one breath, the SCO suit, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and the Supreme Court Decision in the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case.'"

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Re:why pay any attention to SCO?

[SoIosoft]

If the open source community is so confident that it's correct, why are IBM and others refusing to pay the expenses should any of their users be sued over intellectual property violations? Microsoft recently extended full protection to its users, should they be sued for using Windows. Why are the large vendors of the Linux community such as IBM, Redhat, and SuSe being so niggardly? I'd like to believe the open source community is right, but the vendors would do themselves a huge PR favor by extending the protection I've discussed to their users. What's stopping this from happening? And even if it isn't necessary because SCO has no IP rights in the kernel, someone else could easily come along, make a similar claim, but have a much stronger case. This is one of the few things that bugs me about open source and Linux. I'd feel much more confident if the vendors weren't so niggardly and would provide protection to anyone sued for using Linux.