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SCO: Getting ridiculous...

There is an old Swedish saying: Where your brains ends the fists continue. I guess SCO has reached the point where they no longer have any valid arguments. How else do you explain this?

SCO has published a number of quotes from well known Linux "spokespeople" (I doubt they would like that title) Bruce Perens (author of the Open Source Definition) and Richard Stallman.

To me they are clearly taken out of context in such a way that the original meaning is completely lost.

SCO | Scosource | Quotes_from_leaders

Read all about the SCO vs IBM case in this Wiki maintained by Karsten Self.

The quotes:

Richard Stallman

"I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect."
Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software: O'Reilly (2002) at p. 72

"The whole GNU project is really one big hack. It's one big act of subversive playful cleverness..."
Richard Stallman, Revolution OS (DVD)

Bruce Perens

"This is becoming a tradition. I go there and break the law every year in the name of free speech."
Bruce Perens, explaining his plan to demonstrate how to modify DVD technology to attendees of an Open Source convention.

"We have to remember that Linux is a follow-on to UNIX. It's not just a UNIX clone. It's actually a UNIX successor."
Bruce Perens, mpulse magazine, December 2001.

Posted by manne at June 24, 2003 08:41 PM | TrackBack

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