Lulu.com: Open Letter to Darl McBride of SCO from Bob
Young
“I’ve kept out of this debate as I no longer work at Red Hat and
wanted to give Matthew Szulik and the Red Hat team complete control
over Red Hat’s communications with the press.“But three years have passed since I worked at Red Hat. Lulu.com
is where I’m spending my time and energies, now I figure I can and
should speak up. Lulu is attempting to create a marketplace for
digital content. Its goal is nothing less than to enable authors to
decide for themselves how to edit, market, and grant rights to
others over the use of their works (copyright).“On the off-chance that anyone is taking Darl McBride’s campaign
seriously I can no longer sit idly by, as to do so could some day
restrict the users of Lulu.com from choosing the copyright terms
and conditions that most suit the needs of the projects they are
trying to advance…”
ITworld: Red Hat Founder Sees Irony in SCO Lawsuit
“IDGNS: Why do you see Darl McBride’s
statements as an attack to Lulu’s users?“Young: Because of his attack on the GPL (GNU
General Public License). If you think about it, his attack on the
GPL was a very broad one. He was saying that the GPL was
unconstitutional, and the clear implication was anything but the
standard copyright terms that are compatible with legislation in
the U.S. Congress is somehow unacceptable. That was the clear
implication of what he was saying. The GPL is un-American and evil.
The follow-up letter from Darl should be a call for legislation to
stamp out evil things like the GPL…”