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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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