Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2003 19:27:49 -0400 dep
wrote: no, but they are mentioned in the lawsuit. rms is rather comically described as "a former MIT professor," and the lawsuit claims that the gpl was formulated to protect linux. one gets the impression that david boies is over-rated. The GPL existed before Linux. Linus chose to license Linux under the GPL. RMS was never a professor at MIT, but he was employed in the AI lab.
Based on the very elementary 'mistakes' being made all over the place, one might get the impression they are deliberately setting up to fail. Totally off the wall, the conspiracy theorist in me (there's a bit of one in all of us isn't there?) wonders : - is this a way to force the end of unix code? what happens to the ip if they simply fizzle? - is this a way to drive their price down to make them real attractive? - if they are too attractive, will M$ buy them? then what? - the recent M$ lawsuit stalled their sales ... is this being sponsored to stall Linux expansion? - does M$ have a role in this? is SCO, with their old ties to M$, really a deep mole now called out?