[luau] The SCO saga continues...

[Ronald Willis]

Im sure you folks are probably tired of this SCO vs the world cat fight, but
what are your views on the future of Linux?
What alternatives are there now for the remaining open source code?
Are we all destined to become politicians with promises of open source
freedom, without an honest indication of its future?

Great that Fedora is in place to keep the Penguin alive and breathing! But
how will the overall SCO litigation threats affect new RH/Fedora users? Are
we destined to pay the $200 single processor desktop ransom for their binary
Unix code? Yes the SCO vs RH arrow hasnt hit the mark yet, but it sounds
like they are next after IBM!


I am aware of a November report that is a bit calming, but since this weeks
rulings Ive seen nothing from home base;

November 2003...

What Perens said does count though is SCO's PR war sometimes allows them to
continue their fight.

"What they are counting on is investors who don't follow the case close
enough and those people who think this is a big deal," he said. "What is
happening here is that SCO is trying to divert attention away from the fact
that there is quite literally nothing they can do can win the case. They can
still make lots and lots of money, but this is the largest degree of
deceptiveness I've seen."

Cited; http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3109461