Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:31:16 +0100 From: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO goes after BSD? Message-ID: <200311190031.19174.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <20031118222445.GA18709@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <200311182219.09828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20031118222445.GA18709@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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--Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 18 November 2003 23:24, Michal Pasternak wrote: > Arjan van Leeuwen [Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:19:07PM +0100]: > > What to think of this? > > Depends. > > Linux is (over)hyped these days. Everyone is talking about Linux, big > corporations want to use and develop it (Sun, IBM). SCO also surfs on the > Linux wave to merely punch up it's stock value. BSD still seems to be less > recognized by technical laymen (eg. marketing people). > > So, who would be attacked by SCO in case they decide to run against BSD > systems? Which one of big-bucks-worldwide-famous corporations would it be? > > No hype, no media, no big corporation to attack - no profit for them. The article seems to imply that by attacking the AT&T/BSDi settlement, SCO= =20 would have more power over Linux source code (as some linux source code als= o=20 comes from BSD). That is their angle. Also, they could attack Apple (?). > > If profit is all they want, they will not attack BSD systems. Why should > they? > > But. > > What if they want something else - eg. what if they are only a tool, > financed by some other corporation, which has to spread FUD and eventually > make problems for whole opensource software? > > It would make sense only if the target is GNU: both Linux and X11-desktop > GNU-licensed software, which is already a potential threat to some other, > closed-source, commercial-desktop-producing company. It would be quite > nonsense to try to destroy software project like BSD - you can easily > incorporate all the code into your own software (the license allows that!) > > So, in my opinion, in both cases BSDs will be left untouched. Arjan --Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/uqvH3Ym57eNCXiERApDiAKCQ3TYcCrhAkdb4my6pTtNRHdS2CQCfUspH gJERK/yndkThSe/jhOzSwi4= =E4gk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/--
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