This kind of knee-jerk reaction can do irreparable harm to members of the open-source community and if you want to convince developers, businesses, etc. that open source is a bad investment and will cause them greater harm than sticking with the traditional proprietary model, I can't think of a better way to demonstrate it than to start some knee-jerk reactions to rumors about ownership.
At the end of the day, we need to judge a company and organization based upon its actions, and spreading rumors, calling for negative actions is simply playing right into the FUD covered hands of those who would like nothing better than to see the open source community cannibalize itself.
SCO is a very poor threat to Linux currently, but our own community is a much greater one due to this type of reaction.
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Well said, I agree wholeheartedly.
I think that we as a community need to consider the overall scenario and not
get over-emotional or over-react. The facts speak for themselves - no need to cut off
your arm just because you injure your finger.
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