Re: [PLUG] SCO Threatening to sue customers for using SCO's software

["Jeffrey J. Nonken" <jnork@nonken.net>]

At 01:13 PM 5/19/2003, you wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:05:11AM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > No doubt all of you have heard about what's going with SCO, their lawsuit
> > with IBM, attacking Linux, and getting license $ from MS. I'd like to hear
> > what your thoughts and opinions on the subject.
>
> Noise.
>
> The case is groundless; SCO has concocted a laughably false history of
> the issues.  Microsoft is lending credence to SCO's case because casts
> doubt on Linux, their biggest competitor.
>
> See http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
>
> > Consultants and integrators, has this changed your Linux game plan?
>
> Nope.  I used BSD before, and I'll keep doing it.  ;-)  I don't see *any*
> reason to advise my clients to stop using Linux.

Seems to me this is the sound a drowning company makes when they realize 
they never learned to swim, and their raft won't hold them any more.

And I agree that Microsoft's license purchase is just a way to either 
obfuscate matters, or get a foothold so they can later use it as a point of 
attack on Linux. Or both.

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