[ Thanks to David for this link.
]
“Following SCO CEO Darl McBride’s Open Letter to the Open Source
Community, SCO PR Director Blake Stowell argues his company’s case
for compensation and why the GPL is an uncomfortable fit.“Can you clarify for me parts of Darl’s open letter
regarding a general monetizing of Linux for the good of all:
‘The SCO Group is open to ideas of working with the Open Source
community to monetize software technology and its underlying
intellectual property for all contributors, not just SCO.’ How
exactly does SCO envisage working with other Open Source
contributors to monetize the software?“BS
I think that what Darl was referring to is the fact that many
software vendors have approached SCO to try and find a way to
change the GPL or create a different license that wouldn’t be so
damaging to their business. There are a lot of software vendors
that we’ve spoken to that are extremely afraid of the GPL and would
like to see some changes to it…”
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