It seems that the Open Source community has indicated its willingness to make a deal with the SCO extortionists. http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003081901726OSCYLL In my opinion this is a very dangerous tactic but I recognize that the court system may be many things but fair isn't one of them. In my opinion if we are going to cut a deal with SCO as an Open Source community it should contain some elements which ensure that they will never be a problem again: a) SCO must cease to be a Linux distributor permanently b) SCO must agree to never bundle any Open Source code with its core SCO product going forward c) SCO must agree to never use any Open Source tools in its development chain In return the Linux community should remove the contentious pieces of source code from the 2.6 source tree ( presumably until the matter of ownership is clarified by a court ). Meanwhile as an Open Source community we should crank it up a notch and continue to innovate like crazy and lose the closed source companies in our dust. We should pool the millions of dollars that would have been spent on legal costs and set up a foundation to helping independent Open Source projects help their developers eat. The reality of this whole debate is that those elements of the Linux kernel that are at the centre of the dispute are the big enterprise features on Intel boxes. Those are the elements on which the big two (IBM and HP) are sucking all the available profits at the moment. The bulk of the rest of the Open Source community is working on aspects (and trying to eek out a living ) of the Open Source pool that is ultimately going to consume all the competition in areas such as: i) programming tools ii) embedded development iii) web services iv) desktop -- 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