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Re: SCO systems and 'Target Deprecation'


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:22:22AM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> For obvious reasons I can comment very little on what has gone on in 
> this thread although my restraint has been the hardest thing I have had 
> to endure in along time. All I can say is I encourage people to think 
> about the words "open", and to look at the real scope of SCO's lawsuits 
> not at reactionary, often misguided and religiously "patriotic" 
> assertions made in the heat of passion and not in the cold light of logic.

SCO drew the battle lines. Many people in the world, including myself,
are now being called software pirates. We could sit back and have
faith that IBM's lawyers will settle things, or that somebody will buy
out SCO to make them settle down, -or- we could discuss a reasonable
and just reaction that would turn this attack on open source / free
software around into a show of force from the open source / free
software movements. SCO has the power to make threatening allegations.
We have the power to refuse to make life easy for SCO. If the FSF, and
the other open source / free software movements sit back, and do nothing,
they invite other companies to take SCO's lead. Precidences cannot help
but be set in situations such as these.

> A sad and very weary Kean.

I respect your position. I cannot respect the position of your employer.

I find companies that use open source / free software and who refuse
to return any resources at all to be border-line inappropriate. I find
companies that try to exploit the resources of world-wide volunteer or
shared effort networks to be evil, and to deserve a response of some
sort. SCO didn't make Linux, and yet, they claim to be the only reason
that Linux has succeeded as well as it has. This claim questions the
integrity, intelligence, and capability of Linux kernel developers,
and as a natural result, due to the confusion between the place of
Linux in open source / free software, places into question the
integrity, intelligence, and capability of open source / free software
developers all around the world. This is disgusting.

mark

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