The SCO Strategy
May 19th, 2003
Dana Blankenhorn of Moore’s Lore on why IBM Should Pay The Blackmailer:
If SCO’s claims are upheld, Linux simply ceases to be open source until the open source community can rewrite something compatible that uses none of SCO’s source code, and even then the new code must be tested in court (as well as in computers and the market).
The wise thing for IBM to do, it seems to me, at this point is to accede to SCO’s blackmail, buy the company, and then put the entire code into the public domain. This isn’t just right for egalitarian reasons. It’s also right in terms of IBM’s strategy, which is based on millions and billions of programmers banging on Linux and stamping out bugs.
Oooh, SCO is sneaky.