02-13-2004, 07:41 AM
As morally wrong as the whole thing is, one thing people tend to forget is that business is business. It would be difficult to bring libel charges against Microsoft and SCO in tihs case, simply because one of the key factors of open source isn't profit, so under libel laws, no one's being hurt. If Linux was represented by a profitable company, Microsoft and SCO would be hit with libel charges so fast their heads would spin. Really sucks that nothing can be done about it, but that's one of the risks of being not-for-profit.
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.