Cause I can do it, in the mix / Not a problem that I can't fix
Every day it seems like SCO does something else to shoot themselves in the foot with regards to their case against IBM and the Free Software Community. This time, they've sent out a ridiculous "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". It's chock full of all kinds of logical flaws, not the least of which are blatant misquotes of Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens. The flood of bullshit from them is hard to believe at times.
But in the spirit of fairness, sbuckhopper posted a "remix" of the letter on Slashdot giving SCO the same treatment. Let's see how they like being misquoted and misrepresented—included below is the full text of the comment.
Funny, the way I read the OpenLetter from SCO, Darl seems to be in favor of OpenSource. Now that he's dumping all of his SCO stock maybe he doesn't care anymore. Or maybe he's realized that there is not case...
Here is quotes from the letter that support my statement:
"This ""Open Source software is healthy and beneficial. It offers long-term benefits to the industry by addressing a new business model in advance of wide-scale adoption by customers."
"My company, the SCO Group, became a focus of this controversy when we ""fought ""to ""cast...""a shadow over the ""Open Source movement ""by ""alleging ""that UNIX System V code"" in fact"" proprietary software code""."
"Linux ""is a ""authorized ""work ""not ""derivative ""of ""the ""UNIX System V code""."
"No one can tolerate ""SCO's ""business model that is ""built only on ""a lawsuit against IBM"". ""Finally, it is clear that the ""SCO Group is ""increasingly alienated from anyone associated ""with ""software ""and ""community."
"I will continue to ""sue... ""everyone ""...as... ""CEO""."
Check the letter, every quoted word is in there in some context or another. I see this as just as valid of an interpretation of his letter as he does Bruce Peren's letter and ESR's statements.