[plug] More SCO in the news

[Kai Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Meyer [mailto:meyerri at au1.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, 16 May 2003 12:29 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] More SCO in the news
>
> http://rss.com.com/2100-1016_3-1003571.html?tag=lh
>
> <quote>
>
>
>  SCO, a financially struggling company that claims its Unix
> intellectual property has been
>  illegally incorporated into Linux, also said it had sent
> letters to about 1,500 of the world's
>  largest corporations warning they could be liable for using
> Linux.
>
> </quote>
>
> Now it really starts looking like a certain Redmond based
> software company
> has hired the CEO of SCO to further the Redmond aims.
>
> This whole thing starts looking like it's there to undermine OFOS (Our
> Favourite Operating System)
>
> RichardM

Yep, that and Microsoft's strategy against OSS which I posted earlier to
off-topic:
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId
=96369

This leads me to beleive Microsoft are running scared and, as usual, trying
very hard to give a public impression that they're not worried but behind
the scenes they're doing as much as possible to undermine OSS in every way
they can think of, even if it means breaking the law but that's nothing new
to them.

I remember not that long ago Microsoft was blaming OSS as a major reason for
their share prices going down (maybe to try and get investors to despise OSS
as much Microsoft do, I dunno) and I guess there's only a few ways you can
attack a competitor that isn't owned by any single organisation and I'm sure
we'll see more FUD and the usual tricks now and in future.