SCO and the FSF

[Dennis Kibbe]

Now that most of the air has been released from SCO's balloon I've been
rereading the position papers written early on by Eben Moglen, Bradley
Kuhn and Richard Stallman (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/sco/).

What becomes clear from this reading is the wisdom in the FSF's
insistence that there be a clean legal trail for all the code that the
FSF licenses and that calling the system GNU/Linux is not done out of
vanity (as some might think) but is important to understand that the
Linux kernel is only a small part of the complete system.

Many reading SCO's FUD over the years no doubt thought that any user of
Free software might be in grave danger when, in fact, SCO's claims were
against alleged code in the Linux kernel.

Also, clear is that the maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds,
was far more interested in arguing the merits of various schedulers
than crafting a solid legal framework to protect us from the SCOs of
this world.

Dennisk
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Phoenix Linux Users Group
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