Rick Tomaschuk wrote:

What on earth is wrong with a free market? Our whole economy is based on a free market. The world is moving toward globalization. The GPL is a welcome addition to our world but we still need to maintain other options. IMHO

There is nothing wrong with the free market. However, using the system of laws which is designed to restrict (opposite of free) rights to do business is not what I consider free market economy. Rather than spending their energy on developing a better product to compete with linux, or capitalising on its use like IBM has done, SCO is trying to succeed by bringing others down which is the first sign of a bandit (couldn't find a better term). And what do you mean by other options? (I'll spare you my ironic example). Also on the topic of corporations (in response to another recent post) I would like to say that corporations where originally designed to protect individuals from law suits, governments (tax collections, inspections, and other nonsense), etc. However, when the corporation is ran by a hired or public body (management, shareholders), it becomes a body much like our government, and no better than it. I personally agree with Peter that we need to solve the problem first (if SCO actually identifies it) and then worry about who is to blame. I personally think lawsuits should have a time limit - 6 months and then it's over. That way normal people can get on with their life. --- Anton -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml