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Your attitude towards and solution for or lack thereof for your smoking problem are indicative of where we are with linux. We have an addiction to MS on the desktop. We need the nicotine patches of Windows-like capabilities to bridge the gap. We also need time for a generation to grow up with linux in place in the schools. In the meantime, linux and the GPL must survive SCO. This SCO deal is such a perfect setup. SCO can damage linux and the GPL even if they lose, just by raising the cost of using linux. When they lose, SCO will be just a shell, propped up long enough to succeed or fail. There will be nothing to recover the huge expenses of this little court trip from. Those who are doing the propping will prop with just enough to hold up the shell while the shell is holding up linux. The minute it ceases to do that, the shell will disappear into bankruptcy with absolutely nothing to recover. Then, if no company steps up to buy and contribute the intellectual property to the commons, it may end up in the hands of a successor that will repeat the process ad infinitum on some "novel" legal grounds. Have we the picture.
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R.I.P.  Eggs Ackley_z | 01/23/04
Amen.  Damon K | 01/23/04
They should go under wings of all governments (internationally).  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
what are you smoking?  Joe_Bob | 01/23/04
The picture is bigger ?  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
LInux is free  Rational32 | 01/25/04
It seems the topic is too complicated for you.  Vily Clay | 01/25/04
simple  NemesisNL | 01/24/04
Re: Simple  rett@... | 01/26/04
exactly right  JWatson77 | 01/23/04
Wrong approach  jesusgeek | 01/23/04
Linux will dominate  jfreedle2@... | 01/23/04
And Then?  el-heffa | 01/24/04
As you wrote ..  Vily Clay | 01/23/04
Linux will prevail  Rational32 | 01/25/04
The real world - Money before Laws. Open your eyes, please. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/25/04
Huh?  el-heffa | 01/24/04
SCO was the "guest that wouldn't leave"  Xunil_Sierutuf | 01/23/04
Party Pooper's Greatest Hits  jesusgeek | 01/23/04
Surprise surprise  penguinsrockagain | 01/23/04
Dramatic triggers exists  FilledOut | 01/23/04
because  JWatson77 | 01/23/04
reality check  jimk_z | 01/23/04

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