Fwd: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-laden treatise on SCO vs. IBM

[Terry Lambert]

Stephen McKay wrote:
> Wouldn't it be much worse if nobody defended Linux and SCO crushed it?
> Where would all the "count the angels on a pin head" arguments get you
> then?

It wouldn't matter, just like it doesn't matter.  The whole thing
is just a massive publicity opportunity for people in both the
Linux and SCO camps.  If it ever came down to really going to
court, the IBM patent counter-suit would crush SCO like a grape.

-- Terry