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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Face-Off: SCO vs. IBM

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 26, 2004

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SCO Has No Business But Show Business

“There’s no business like SCO’s business, like no business I
know.” This Irving Berlin-like lyric describes SCO’s anti-IBM legal
grandstanding to a T. SCO has no business today but show
business–and its act is more of a farce than a courtroom
drama…”

What is IBM Hiding?

“No matter what you think of SCO president and CEO Darl McBride
or his tactics, this isn’t a personal attack against the open
source movement. So then, it’s all about the money, right? Of
course it is, but it’s also about the plain workings of our
capitalist system and copyright laws. The question is: Does SCO
possess intellectual property rights to source code used by the
Linux operating system? If it does, then a license is the company’s
due, whether anyone likes it or not…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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