A great big "Thank you" to SCO...
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| dinotrac Sep 19, 2007 6:05 AM EDT |
Gotta love the law of unintended consequences. Through no good will of their own, Darl and co. have given free software a great big wet one, right on the mouth. Their idiocy put IBM in the middle of Linux's IP credibility. Bad move for them, good move for us. Great big warning to Microsoft should it actually try walking the walk to match it's talk on patents. Add in a few other tidbits: 1. Recent Supreme Court ruling on contestability of patents, 2. Microsoft's defeat on OOXML 3. Surge of Firefox 4. EU decision against Microsoft and I think lots of concern over FOSS IP and viability goes up in smoke. |
| Abe Sep 19, 2007 6:16 AM EDT |
Quoting:and I think lots of concern over FOSS IP and viability goes up in smoke. All nice and great but, Never let your guard down when the monster is still breathing. |
| dinotrac Sep 19, 2007 6:17 AM EDT |
>Never let your guard down when the monster is still breathing. Never let you guard down, period. While you've got your eye on the monster, your friend may stab you in the back. |
| Abe Sep 19, 2007 6:40 AM EDT |
Quoting:While you've got your eye on the monster, your friend may stab you in the back.You mean like Novell's deal ! Yap, I see your point. Sorry Dino, I couldn't resist. :) |
| dinotrac Sep 19, 2007 7:13 AM EDT |
>You mean like Novell's deal I was thinking more like GPLV3, but different courses for different horses. |
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