[TriLUG] O.T., but interesting (SCO Protest)

[Gnu Man]

SCO's history according to SCO:

http://www.sco.com/company/history.html


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 00:55, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > SCO are truly enemies of free software and are attempting to position linux 
> > users with criminals.  What has amazed me is how scheming and diabolical they 
> > are.  It seems that they involved themselves with Linux for the sole purpose 
> > of undermining and subverting it.  Real strategic planning went into this.  
> > It is not coincidental.  
> > Smitty
> 
> Just to set the record straight, and maybe muddy the waters a bit...
> The "SCO Group" is not the same as SCO.  The original SCO that actually
> helped out Linux no longer exists (well it goes by a different name) -
> and the only thing that this Corp has in common with the original SCO is
> the letters "SCO" in the name.
> 
> This company is really just a group of lawyers that has successfully
> sued it's way to profits. They buy up "intellectual property" and then
> milk all the participants they can.
> 
> If they continue on with their past MO, then they *will* sue companies
> using Linux.  They don't care if they are right or wrong - only if they
> can get money, and they have plenty of legal talent sitting around with
> nothing better to do.
> 
> Jon
> 
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