Computerworld: Linus Weighs In: GPL No Hippie Dream

“I was recently sent a copy of SCO CEO Darl McBride’s open
letter on copyright law. As usual, McBride portrays the Linux
community as the enemy of copyright. As always, he gets fundamental
facts wrong.

“[The letter’s] argument about copyright law is totally specious
and fails any sensible test. [It] claims that the U.S. Congress’
authority under the U.S. Constitution to ‘promote the Progress of
Science and the useful arts’ inherently includes a profit
motive.

“This is an obvious misrepresentation of facts. It’s akin to
saying that public universities are fundamentally unconstitutional,
since they ‘promote the Progress of Science’ yet they aren’t
motivated by profit…”

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