Unless there's a monopoly situation, "unfair" is the cry of the people whose business model or practices can't hold up in the free market. But "free" isn't really that free. In most operations, licensing costs are a small percentage of TCO. Therefore, Linux cannot win only on free, but on technological merits and other factors involved in TCO.
I'm pretty certain Thomas Jefferson wouldn't have been interested
Thomas Jefferson tried to prevent even the limited monopoly allowed by the Constitution. He new that arts grow fastest when information is freely shared, unencumbered by artificial monopolies.
No reason those servers couldn't be loaded with ... Windows.
Hilarious!
But without software income, there's no R&D, and ultimately new products and features.
There's software income for anything they write on top of it if they want to. Otherwise, they get to cut total system costs by going Linux and then -- oh no! -- make more profit due to OSS.
These foreigners and hippies here in America are looting our intellectual property
Thses foreigners and hippies are GIVING US intellectual property for FREE. I like that.
It's 90% of IBM putting Unix trade secrets into Linux, and letting people like jong jemin download it for nothing
You believe that SCO garbage? Everything so far points to the suit being a sad attempt of the failing company trying to initiate a buyout. BTW, did you know that SCO is in violation of hundreds of copyrights by Linux authors all over the world? Oh yeah, they value IP.
They're offering inferior cloned technology of our already existing commercial products, and in return they want the significantly more advanced technology of ours that their rip off design was originally based on. They can have their immitation, but we shouldn't destroy our advantage by showing them how to make their attempted copy anywhere near as good.
Everything so far points to the suit being a sad attempt of the failing company trying to initiate a buyout.
That suit may or may not have merit but the principles they are arguing are correct - that America's intellectual property is very valuable and should be protected, and not given away to the rest of the world for nothing. Same with music and other software on pirate websites like kazaa.