[nylug-talk] Companies demonized as "Scummy" and "Evil" -- WAS: Looking for recommendations

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:55:10PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> In fact, and I regularly argue, if it wasn't for the rabid demonization
> of SCO by the Linux community, people would have realized that SCO had
> no case against Linux at all.  But because so many rabid people in the
> Linux community wanted to ignorantly and immediately side with IBM, the
> IT media started assuming it was SCO v. Linux, instead of the reality
> that it was SCO v. IBM.
> 
> That's how people missed the fact that SCO _never_ sued anyone just
> using Linux, but only IBM, AutoZone and Chrysler -- companies that had
> binding, written contracts with SCO.  That's why I don't demonize.
> Because it's the important, factual, legal information I have that is
> what matters to decision makers in corporations.  And it's also why I
> often despise the demonizers.

What I recall of the beginning of the bru-ha-ha, there was threats
from SCO that linux included infringing IP in the form of
contributions from IBM employees in the form of portions or all of
JFS and LVM, and possibly other parts of the kernel.

-Peter

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