I agree with your examples but I'm not sure they apply to this case. If SCO is correct IBM stole from them. I agree if SCO is wrong they are acting immorally, but how are they acting immorally if there claims are true? My thinking was if what they clam is true and they win, where is the problem? The open source community shouldn't back companies what steal code for the sake of open source. If they are wrong and lose they are doing to die, boycott or not. I wouldn't use their OS's simply because they are going out of business at that point. Not that I use them or would use them anyway. IMHO they have a hard sell over Solaris for UNIX and Red Hat, IBM or any other popular distro for Linux now.
If what SCO says is true than IBM did screw them and they deserve to pay SCO some cash. You can't just take someone's code and then use it in open source without their knowledge, especially if that person expected to make money off that code. If what SCO charges is false, which is what many people seem to believe, then IBM will win the case, SCO will get nothing, and they will probably go out of business shortly after that. Why is a boycott required? And who uses any of SCO's products anyway?
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I agree with your examples but I'm not sure they apply to this case. If SCO is correct IBM stole from them. I agree if SCO is wrong they are acting immorally, but how are they acting immorally if there claims are true? My thinking was if what they clam is true and they win, where is the problem? The open source community shouldn't back companies what steal code for the sake of open source. If they are wrong and lose they are doing to die, boycott or not. I wouldn't use their OS's simply because they are going out of business at that point. Not that I use them or would use them anyway. IMHO they have a hard sell over Solaris for UNIX and Red Hat, IBM or any other popular distro for Linux now.
If what SCO says is true than IBM did screw them and they deserve to pay SCO some cash. You can't just take someone's code and then use it in open source without their knowledge, especially if that person expected to make money off that code. If what SCO charges is false, which is what many people seem to believe, then IBM will win the case, SCO will get nothing, and they will probably go out of business shortly after that. Why is a boycott required? And who uses any of SCO's products anyway?