SCO CEO Darl McBride is an Idiot
I’m being deliberately inflammatory with the title above, but I really don’t know how else to describe my reaction to SCO CEO Darl McBride’s pathetic attempt to link post-9/11-era “red-baiting” to an argument against the GPL. The GPL as “threat to the U.S. information technology industry”? To “our international competitive position”? To “our national security”?
Sigh…. As disappointed as I am to read this sort of thing, I’ll be deeply troubled if the argument ever gets anywhere with the people whose opinion he is trying to sway. Not only is it reactionary, but it’s simply stupid. Clearly the “our” above is the narrow interests of a company that cannot otherwise compete, and is akin to U.S. proponents of free trade who can’t seem to bring themselves to eliminate subsidies to U.S. agriculture.
