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April 18, 2005
The SCO Boomerang and the Strength of Linux
This is a great article about how the Microsoft funded effort of SCO to destroy Linux has backfired completely and pretty much guaranteed that Open Source will rule the world going forward. Basically the SCO case has time and again been proven to be completely unfounded, but it's caused the Open Source community to close ranks in a way that they really never had before. The result has been a successful testing of the GPL (General Public License) and proving that the code not only wasn't stolen from anyone except from IBM by SCO. Which is a hilarious irony consider that after years of pouring through Linux code the only violations that have been discovered by SCO is that they stole from IBM. Ultimately there is no stopping the Open Source movement in computers, software is moving towards becoming a commodity no matter how long desperate companies hold onto the dream of charging outrageous sums for software that people really don't need as much as they think they do.
Read more here.
Posted by ManDrake at April 18, 2005 1:41 PM
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