[Sussex] Ok the gauntlets on the floor!

[John D.]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:48, Geoff Teale wrote:

> One major tenet of the GPL is that it does not exclude any person.  
> You can come from any faith, country, political view point or 
> corporation and use GPL programs and code so long as you comply with the 
> terms of the GPL.  SCO can use the GPL code with the same rights as IBM 
> or Linus Torvalds.

So, this is, presumably, why "friend Balmer" refered to linux as
software cancer/software communism not all that long ago.

I wondered, because when I first saw reports of it, I automatically
"pooh poohed" it as more MS based FUD, and couldn't be bothered to read
any further.

regards

John D.