SCO takes on the Feds

[MrLinus]

I totally agree with MsMittens and others, except the point of SCO trying to state there is a viable threat to security is mistaken or taken out of context. The threat of supercomputing is not troop movements or CNNs ability to connect to a satelite and show rockets going off in Bagdad. It's the accurate modeling of atomic fission and more critical, the avionic and guidence systems that would deliver the BOOM.

And what stops them from using closed software for the same goal? It's not whether or not it's Open Source that causes it, but rather the ethics and ability of others. Who says they haven't got their own OS doing the same thing that Linux or Microsoft or any other OS manufacturer would do?

Personally I think it's an arrogant statement period by them and a false assumption that if you kill Open Source then you will ensure that "bad governments" won't develop faster jets or bigger "BOOM BOOM sticks".

[RoadClosed]

Nothing is to stop them. But you can argue that open source linux is faster, FREE, and easier to build for scientific applications vs. Microsoft. I am not arguing it's validity, it's stupid. Just pointing out where they are coming from by touting that supercomputers based on linuz open source projects are a national security threat to the west. SCO tactics border on fanatical. My assumption is that their actions are based on greed vs. common sense. Besides linux isn't and American "export"

[souleman]

This entire thing just reminds me of the Amazon.com 1-click order patient and their lawsuit against Barnes and Nobel.

[gore]

Originally posted here by souleman
This entire thing just reminds me of the Amazon.com 1-click order patient and their lawsuit against Barnes and Nobel.

Except Barnes and Nobel aren't trying to charge us for looking at google.com free on the internet because they are losing money on "http://www.google.com" in book form