[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Recently, a letter from the Linux community to SCO supposedly
addressed the concerns SCO has created in the industry about
open-source software.“However, the letter fails to accomplish its apparent goals and,
in my opinion, actually increases SCO’s short-term chances of
successfully getting funding from large corporate Linux users. In
fact, in reading the letter, I wondered whether it was actually
written by someone being paid by SCO, which probably means I’m
spending too much time with the open-source software folks and have
begun to become as paranoid as they are about secret
conspiracies.“I really doubt there is a conspiracy here, but it is hard to
understand why the Linux community would feel the need to write a
widely distributed letter that once again would showcase the risk.
As I look at the companies mentioned in the letter–and the
implication that each one is apparently willing to go into
litigation–I can only wonder what kinds of conversations are
suddenly going on between IT, marketing and legal departments in
those firms…”