USENIX Letter to Congress Re: SCO Lawsuit
The USENIX Association has written an Open Letter to the US Congress regarding the SCO letter to Congress on SCO’s position on Open Source Software.
The SCO letter is tortured at best, but the the USENIX letter is a masterful piece of writing. It calmly takes each of the SCO assertions and shows that they are self-contradictory, self-serving, hypocritical, and misrepresentations of both US law and policy.
Recommended reading.
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