[luau] The SCO saga continues...

Gary Sublett gsublett at gmsdigita.com
Fri Jan 16 14:08:00 PST 2004


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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:35:34 -1000
"Ronald Willis" <ronal at aloha.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
Ron,

I think you're being a bit pessimistic,  may I suggest:

 http://www.groklaw.net/

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Gary
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