On Fri, June 11, 2010 2:46 pm, mark wrote: > IBM can still pursue their counter-claims against SCO. Personally, I > hope they do, and that they win, and that they ask for their compensation > in form of company stock. Then then can fire all the management, fold > what software engineers are left into their own internal organizations, > and SCO can be gone for good.
Interesting point. That being said, I agree for two-fold reasons: - The rationale you laid out, and - every win against SCO helps make Linux's legal armor that much stronger. In this post-Alex de Toqueville Institution time, it's easy to rest on our laurels, but we can't lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of people out there who -- for whatever reason -- have no love lost for Linux. AdTI president Ken Brown, who authored "Open Sores" white papers and a (n unpublished) book -- all with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims a-plenty; Maureen O'Gara, unofficial mouthpiece for SCO; and SCO, itself, leap to mind as the most obvious entities -- but there've been plenty others, and yet more are no doubt lurking. Banishing SCO to the nether regions is good; setting legal precedent is even better. Because it costs money to mount a legal battle -- and the people who have the money will be more hesitant to mount such an attack if their odds of winning seem to be relatively low. Note, of course, that this doesn't hold true if they get under-the-table funding from a certain company in Redmond -- as did, in fact, happen for SCO, in the guise of a $6,000,000 licensing payment. Ironic in the extreme, since SCO came from Xenix, which was an MS product to begin with. $.02, -Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/