[Commons-Law] SCO v. Linux : The story so far

[Aniruddha Shankar]

This is a historical delineation and a summary of the SCO v. Linux story 
which explains in clear language what the issues of contention are and 
interviews to SCO's McBride & to khadi's Torvalds and Perens. Two quotes 
are excerpted:

“If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because 
it obviously is against the remunerative interests of prostitutes,” 
[Perens] said.

“Listen real clearly to what’s happening here,” McBride said in early 
January. “The situation is that we used to be the leader … we were where 
Red Hat [the No. 1 Linux distributor] is now. Linux then comes in, with 
Red Hat being the ringleader, and really attacks our [UNIX] market share 
and our marketplace. And they do it by simply taking our value and doing 
it for free. So, it’s really hard to compete with free. And so, then we 
come back in, and we start looking at this Linux beast, and we looked 
inside of it, and we realized, ‘Hey, wait a minute, this is actually 
us—this is a substantial amount of our intellectual property showing up 
inside of Linux itself.’ And that’s when we got our war paint on and 
said, ‘We gotta go back and take this thing head-on.’”

Article at http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-01-22.cfm
Discussion of article at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/25/1511238

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