[plug] Excellent ESR rant on TSG

[Kai]

Absolutely gold !

Leon Brooks wrote:

>     http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/22/1746248.shtml
> 
>     Late yesterday I learned that you have charged that your company
>     is the victim of an insidious conspiracy masterminded by IBM.
>     You have urged the press and public to believe that the Open
>     Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat
>     and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not
>     because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little
>     gray men from Armonk have put them up to it. /Bwahahaha! Fire up
>     the orbital mind-control lasers!/
> 
>     Very few things could possibly illustrate the brain-boggling
>     disconnect between SCO and reality with more clarity than
>     hearing you complain about how persecuted your company is. You
>     opened this ball on 6 March by accusing the open-source
>     community of criminality and incompetence as a way to set up a
>     lawsuit against IBM. You have since tried to seize control of
>     our volunteer work for your company's exclusive gain, and your
>     lawyers have announced the intention to destroy not just the
>     GPL but all the open-source licenses on which our community is
>     built. It's beyond me how can have the gall to talk as though
>     we need funding or marching orders from IBM to mobilize against
>     you. IBM couldn't stop us from mobilizing!
> 
>     I'm not sure which possibility is more pathetic - that the CEO
>     of SCO is lying through his teeth for tactical reasons, or that
>     you genuinely aren't capable of recognizing honest outrage when
>     you see it. To a manipulator, all behaviors are manipulation.
>     To a conspirator, all opposition is conspiracy. Is that you?
>     Have you truly forgotten that people might make common cause
>     out of integrity, ethical considerations, or simple
>     self-defense? Has the reality you inhabit truly become so
>     cramped and ugly?
> 
>     I'm in at least semi-regular communication with most of the
>     people and organizations who are causing you problems right
>     now. The only conspiracy among us is the common interest in
>     preventing the open-source community from being destroyed by
>     SCO's greed and desperation.
> 
>     [...]
> 
>     /Editor's note: The opinions in this article are strictly
>     Mr. Raymond's, not those held by NewsForge editors or OSDN
>     management. However, it should be noted that NewsForge
>     editors and writers are not being paid or coerced by IBM in
>     any way to write (or not write) about SCO's recent actions./
> 
>     /2nd Editor's note: If, as Mr. McBride claims, the amount of
>     attention SCO has gotten from the computer press is a
>     rational measure of the company's relevance, then -- at for
>     least this week -- the authors of the sobig.f virus are far
>     more relevant than SCO./
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
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