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Okay, that one lost me.

"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."

How, exactly, were they supposed to react to Darl's chest-beating? Look, until Darl actually produces a single shred of evidence, everyone in the OSS community will utterly fail to believe a word he says. But they're not idiots. They know that when a big corporation (even one on its last legs) decides to sue a little guy, the corporation has a lot of money to throw at the legal effort. So they rally, they pool their resources, and they create legal defense umbrellas. What the heck else did you expect them to do, you silly man?

"It has also forced all the players to change a good deal of their marketing strategy and has shifted at least some of Red Hat's steam to other players. Additionaly it is starting to force a fragmentation of Linux as each distro jockeys their offerings/mix to avoid possible problems with SCO."

This is such a load of nonsense I honestly don't know where to start.

Marketing
What marketing strategies have changed? Marketing (before SCO): Linux is solid, stable, and much cheaper than Windows. Margeting (after SCO): Linux is solid, stable, and much cheaper than Windows. Give me a link that says otherwise, or have yourself a nice big glass of shut up.

Fragmentation
Every couple of weeks someone swears up and down that Linux has fragmented, and then reality sets in as they discover, once again, that Linux is Linux. One distro missing a library that you need for a particular application? Install that library. One distro doesn't come with your favorite tool? Install that tool. Don't like how one distro's kernel is compiled? You can install a different kernel. From the easiest activities to the most complex (such as kernel compiling), NOTHING is fragmented in Linux. Here, have another glass of shut up.

Sigh... I really oughta stop responding to such obvious trolls...

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