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Consider that at the faintest hint of a legal problem, the open source "community" has reacted very strongly and is investing MILLIONS in legal defenses.

Actually, the community was quite relaxed about it. The situation started more than half a year ago. The community seems to have started to take this seriously around 2-3 months ago. Which makes sense as its finally in the court system, and before this, its all been hype and PR from the SCO side and unfortunately, its still mostly is.

Now, could you expand on your statement of how this situation is fragmenting Linux.

As I see it, if anyone of the distro's does whatever_it_is to avoid problems (assuming there are some) with SCO, then it would be assimilated into Linus's kernel tree. This would avoid fragmentation and also strengthen the kernel. Isn't this one of the side effects of the GPL? To be able to pick the best solution to a problem from a set of solutions provided by the community.
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Microsoft has to just hate this.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Linux Advocates have to just hate this  chrichton99 | 01/12/04
I'm still waiting  dscherf | 01/12/04
Hey, you use MS products and your are already screwed.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Users of Linux stand to get sued?  IT_User | 01/12/04
Have you ever heard of Timeline?  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Have they ever sued a Microsoft customer?  StorageGuru | 01/13/04
Stop using facts!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
facts? bwahaHaHAHA (nt)  stephen732@... | 01/13/04
Cool off sonny  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Perhaps re-read the article  Richard Flude | 01/13/04
To answer  dscherf | 01/13/04
How so?  doe_z | 01/13/04
I'd smile too  AV8TR | 01/13/04
95% of Cash to Novell  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
Actually, just the opposite.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Could you explain...  doe_z | 01/13/04
Simple, MS doesn't hate it at all.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Okay, that one lost me.  Damon K | 01/13/04
The indemnification is just a pie in the sky  pa2004 | 01/12/04
If SCO wins the case!!!  IT_User | 01/12/04
An honest suggestion  OhMyGosh | 01/13/04
Assuming SCO wins.  doe_z | 01/13/04
Assuming SCO ever files suit  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/13/04
Novell is coming home to roast the rooster!  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/12/04
I dont know who will win  Kamakazii | 01/12/04
Not to mention the hessitation of companies because of SCO's threats  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
Yes, there are clear winners  IT_User | 01/13/04
You may be right!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
So what happens in the off off chance SCO wins in court  FilledOut | 01/13/04
So far off as to hardly merit consideration  IT_User | 01/13/04
Novell gets 95%  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
They will pay it back to IBM when they lose the patent suit  Taz_z | 01/13/04
May this is just a PR move  nite_w0lf | 01/13/04
Novell can waive enforcement  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
Betting against SCO  George Mitchell | 01/13/04
Legal Gamming...  MG_z | 01/13/04
When does "show me the code" happen?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Yesterday  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
January 12  dscherf | 01/13/04
what about the poor men  jreek | 04/19/04

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