Fri, 05 Dec 2003

More SCO Madness

SCO's McBride sounds off in Linux legal battle. Chief Executive Darl McBride invokes the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over intellectual property rights. Also: SCO postpones its quarterly earnings report. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Well, this story is all over the place today: this letter shows how completely out of touch with reality SCO is in their quest to lock up Unix... but what Linus Torvalds had to say about the whole matter was so funny it deserves to be reproduced here:

If Darl McBride [chairman of SCO] was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution.
[quoted at InfoWorld]

Lawrence Lessig has a great blog entry today on this very topic. Imagine that!

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