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I think there are a lot of things going on here. Whilst "...it remains to be seen if there are any violations of substance" and "...it doesn't matter a whit if McB doesn't like the GPL" and SCO is going to loose the legal battle, it's important to note that one of the things Darl is doing is rallying all the interested forces within the industry against his and their worst enimy. Our friend the GPL. I think he's part of a larger campain to ultimately lobby for legislation to invalidate the GPL. You see he's using the legal war with IBM as an excuse to shout as LOUD as possible about the supposed dangers of GPL. He's trying to appeal to all those with money (read lobbying power) to be afraid of the Open Source Movement. That's why it doesn't matter that his letters are illogical nonsense. He's not trying to appeal to people who are logical. He wants to appeal to people who have money and who are scared of loosing it. In years to come I think we might look back on this whole period (past, present and future) as the Great War of Coding Freedom. Where the establishment throws all its might at trying to force commerce to triumph over what's right and moral. I can't say I'm comfortable at predicting the outcome either...

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