SCO's now publicly proved rip off of BSD gives me hope for some real good to come out of this whole SCOrdeal. That is news, that the SCO creeps were thieves all along and were too sloppy and incompetent to notice. What a burn, it reverses the whole moral perspective in terms even the most pointy haired of bosses can understand. Can Microsoft's code stand up to such scrutiny? I doubt it.
On 2003.08.23 13:25 Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > Man! ESR Rulez. After playing "Blind man's bluff" since march, things > really start to get perspective. Still I don't get why we should even give > SCO a fair trial. Traitors should always be hung*.Looking on the > positive side I think the whole SCO fiasco has done more good than harm. I > am not sure how the "corporate" money mongers took it but the general > masses at least heard the words "Linux" and more importantly "open > Source". I believe there would be more attempts from the dark side to > derail things for the open source community. > > > I doubt that MSNBC, CNN and CNET, Business Week and > > Computerworld will produce binders full of articles about McBride going > > to jail. > Well most of the news agencies tell half the truth or that really excites > the reader and dramatizing every little thing they could get their hands > on. My only with is that they cover the fall of SCO when they hit rock > bottom. > > Karthik > > >
