Linux aids Axis of Evil, SCO claims

Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 22 January 2004
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SCO has written a letter to politicos in Washington DC which alleges that Linux threatens the US economy, technological innovation, its grip over the global software industry and last, but surely not least, "our national security".

Some believe, says Darl McBride, for it is he who has taken pen to paper, that the GNU General Public Licence is in direct contradiction to US copyright law, and to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

But Open Source software, says Darl, "has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by law".

He said: "Someone could build a supercomputer for military applications... but a computer expert in North Korea who has a number of computers... could, in short order, build a virtual supercomputer".

Uh, hello? Does SCO finally realize that its copyright lawsuits will fail and now tries to lobby against Linux? Besides, we know that the US uses a first-strike approch against "enemies", so why are they afraid? And why isn't MS dangerous? "They say if you play the Windows CD backwards you can hear satanic words. Oh, that's nothing.. play it forward and it installs Windows"