McBride: Don't blame us, blame IBM
Eric B. Parizo Nov 19 2003 LAS VEGAS --

During a keynote address Tuesday at the Enterprise .. IT Week
conference, SCO Group Inc. CEO Darl McBride told attendees that the
General Public License that governs Linux .. and open source software
will not survive -- and that the blame for that lies with IBM.
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"There is no doubt that the GPL is at risk right now, but we are not the
ones that put it there. It was IBM. They put it in the line of fire,"
said McBride, adding that he was "thrilled" that IBM pulled the GPL into
the legal discussion, because it's unlikely to survive his company's
legal challenge.
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"It's true that there are a whole bunch of Unix versions out there, but
we own the trunk of the tree," McBride said ...

http://snurl.com/3315
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...htarget/937794

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Daeron
<daeron@demon.net>
wrote
on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:55:51 -0500
<bpj68c$1nplhe$1@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>:
One wonders what Richard Stallman thinks of all this. I somehow
doubt RMS is hanging on to Darl's every word here... :-)

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#191, ewill3@earthlink.net -- and neither am I, for that matter :-)
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The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

What gets me is from that same article:

"McBride added that it is not SCO's intention to harm Linux or the open
source community. Instead, he's defending SCO's most valuable asset -- its
Unix code -- and the investments of SCO shareholders and customers."

Now tell me how obsolete code has suddenly turn into "Most valuable asset"?
Oh! I get it.....There suits are their business now.....Silly me!

B.
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