Will This Man Kill Linux?, Sep 01, 2003

Webmaster's note: Nothing more than a collection of the "sound bites" that McBride has managed to memorize over these past few months - posted for those who need their daily SCO news fix.

Are you afraid of being remembered as the man who killed open source?
People ask why we haven't sued Red Hat. We haven't sued Red Hat because then the GPL [general public license] grinds to a screeching halt, and all shipping distributions of Linux must stop. This whole process is going to make Linux and open source stronger with respect to intellectual property. Today, there's no vetting process to make sure the code that goes into open source is clear. We're trying to work through issues in such a way that we get justice without putting a hole in the head of the penguin.

The fact that Motorola is selling its stake in Symbian (the corporation) doesn't mean that Motorola is stopping selling Symbian (the software) in its phones.

But it does mean that Motorola thinks the future in phone software is elsewhere. Linux, to be precise.

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