Comment Microsoft Backing SCO (Score 1) 1105
I am not very knowledgeble about the SCO case (didn't feel like reading their entire 90-something page, filed complaint), but from what I have read on /. as well as the letter that SCO published to dissuade Linux end-users from using Linux, I can say that I have a fair amount of info to make a hypothesis.
Due to the current downturn of the economy, companies like Amazon are taking any means necessary in order to secure their market share. Amazon is using questionable tactics of pattening EVERYthing in sight.
We have lately seen that Microsoft has been loosing a (small, but yet significant) portion of their market share to Linux. And the SCO case fired up not TOO long ago.
Something smells fishy here: is it possible that Microsoft is secretly backing the SCO case? Maybe in hopes of dissuading companies from switching to Linux by using the argument that Linux infringes on the Unix Sys V copyright?
Plus: everything that has been going on with the music/movie industry and p2p filesharing has got a lot of people (tech/non-tech alike) thinking about copyrights.
Maybe through the SCO case, Microsoft is hoping to win their market share back.
What do you slashdotters think? A valid hypothesis, or easily discredible?
Due to the current downturn of the economy, companies like Amazon are taking any means necessary in order to secure their market share. Amazon is using questionable tactics of pattening EVERYthing in sight.
We have lately seen that Microsoft has been loosing a (small, but yet significant) portion of their market share to Linux. And the SCO case fired up not TOO long ago.
Something smells fishy here: is it possible that Microsoft is secretly backing the SCO case? Maybe in hopes of dissuading companies from switching to Linux by using the argument that Linux infringes on the Unix Sys V copyright?
Plus: everything that has been going on with the music/movie industry and p2p filesharing has got a lot of people (tech/non-tech alike) thinking about copyrights.
Maybe through the SCO case, Microsoft is hoping to win their market share back.
What do you slashdotters think? A valid hypothesis, or easily discredible?
