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Dear Open Source Community
CEO and purported owner of the UNIX Operating System, Darl McBride, posted a friendly missive today on SCO's site, encouraging all followers of Open Source to play nice. Here's a six-point summary: Open Source has its roots in hackers and...
September 9, 2003
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CEO and purported owner of the UNIX Operating System, Darl McBride, posted a friendly missive today on SCO's site, encouraging all followers of Open Source to play nice. Here's a six-point summary:
Open Source has its roots in hackers and miscreants, which explains this community's need to act outside of "the rule of law," but please, please stop DoSing our site.
Open Software is still woefully immature and has blatantly disregarded fundamental software practices (namely IP rights research).
All your base...sorry, a million lines of code in Linux belong to us, and Bruce Perens admitted as much.
We're not naming names, but some large corporations (IBM) are selling software (Linux) without a warranty!
Most Linux vendors are barely scraping by.
Evidently, "It is easier for some in the Open Source community to fire off a 'rant' than to sit across a negotiation table," but my door is always open. Let's work together!
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