Pamela Jones, Network World (US online)
Aug 15 2006 07:57:12
So, just where do things stand legally in the Linux world, post-SCO?
What has changed as a result of the SCO saga? If a Son of SCO shows up
in the future, is the community prepared? What is now in place that
wasn't there when SCO first showed up in 2003? Here is a brief summary
to bring you up to date.
[...]
First and foremost, we've changed. SCO did its worst, and Linux came
out victorious, with the community more solid and better organized than
ever ..
[...]
While a certain company's allegedly chair-throwing CEO has dropped many
hints about Linux being vulnerable to patent infringement lawsuits,
there are reasons to wonder if it will happen in quite the way some
seemed to think back in 2003. Linux isn't as vulnerable as it used to
be.
[...]
I think business players in the community can be made to understand
that the one thing Microsoft can't embrace, extend and extinguish is
FOSS values. You can trust the community, because it didn't write the
software to do anything but honestly write the very best software it
could. There are no hidden motives. No games. No lies ...
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;724544089;pp;2;fp;16;fpid;0
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