[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And here we have:

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Here is why

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 31 2005 @ 04:39 AM EDT

This fits in nicely with M$ game plan. M$ wanted to use the well-written and secure GPL'ed code which is of course, available free of costs from web. Only way you could get around the obligaitons imposed by GPL was to claim Linux=Unix.

Include Linux in one of your products, and when copyright holder of the GPL'ed material accosts you, claim all linux is Unix and is licensed from SCO, therefore M$ is not obliged to conform with the GPL.

[Bush2000]

This fits in nicely with M$ game plan. M$ wanted to use the well-written and secure GPL'ed code which is of course, available free of costs from web. Only way you could get around the obligaitons imposed by GPL was to claim Linux=Unix.

And we know this because .... uhhhhhh ..... wellll .... uhhhhhh .... some random guy on the Web thinks so. Wow, I'm convinced! Sign me up for mind-reading classes today!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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