Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 21, 2004 09:23 AM
that Novell didn't start the litigation of first, but they knew exactly where this was going. Hopefully they will prevail and stop SCO so GNU/Linux can move forward.
But either way, the more press the better. Linux needs exposure. People will hear the name, then start thinking about it more and more. And so when they hear the name, they will go "Oh yeah...". Even tho they have no experience with it, the name recognition will give the name of Linux some relevance.
Hopefully, this conflict will also educate. I mean, what's more attractive, closed source with no sense of control, or open source, where you have sense of ownership?
Everything SCO does promotes Linux rather than harms it. The absolute worse they could do is to illegalise Linux western hemisphere, but thats next to impossible. Realisticly however, they could prove there was their IP in Linux and Linux would be forced to purge SCO's property. And that's ok. It will make Linux stronger.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 21, 2004 09:23 AMBut either way, the more press the better. Linux needs exposure. People will hear the name, then start thinking about it more and more. And so when they hear the name, they will go "Oh yeah...". Even tho they have no experience with it, the name recognition will give the name of Linux some relevance.
Hopefully, this conflict will also educate. I mean, what's more attractive, closed source with no sense of control, or open source, where you have sense of ownership?
Everything SCO does promotes Linux rather than harms it. The absolute worse they could do is to illegalise Linux western hemisphere, but thats next to impossible. Realisticly however, they could prove there was their IP in Linux and Linux would be forced to purge SCO's property. And that's ok. It will make Linux stronger.
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