Subject: Re: Fwd: more on the SCO-IBM lawsuit (from an unlikely source)
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 10:56:12 AKDT
I find it interesting that IBM appears to be choosing to defend itself,
largely anyway, with the GPL and what it means. Unless I am misreading
the intent behind this, this will probably go a long ways towards
legitimizing the GPL in the eyes of the public and business community at
large. Much as when IBM first put out their PC. IBM doing it made it OK
for everyone.
Jim Gribbin
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 09:23, Andy Firman wrote:
> >From another list that I am reading and I think
> some of you might like to see this...
>
> -Andy
>
>
> > In case you missed part of this fall's fun, the calmest site
> >discussing the SCO affair is http://www.groklaw.com/. But you knew
> >that.
> > Today they have a link to the new IBM counterclaim document.
> >http://www.sco.com/ibmlawsuit/ibmamendedcounterclaims.pdf
> >Yup, on SCO's site no less.
> > Now the point here is to read what IBM said, of course, but
> >also read for synopsis written especially clearly. The guys who wrote
> >this at IBM know how to carry info across to busy folks and did so
> >in easy English. I must say, those guys have paid attention and have
> >done their homework. It's a good read, to use the vernacular.
> > I have no idea why SCO put up the document. But then we don't
> >know a lot of things.
> > This will keep you away from the incoherent noise level of
> >slashdot and similar.
>
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