| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| January 23, 2004 12:00 AM EST |
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In defense of the General Public License it created and with SCO on the edge of suing a big Linux end user, the Free Software Foundation took to the pulpit again to decry SCO and its IP claims.
At a press conference at Columbia University on Wednesday it accused SCO of spreading confusion and misinformation about the GPL as part of strategy to extort money from Linux users.
The FSF maintains that SCO's suit against IBM is without merit and that SCO itself distributed the Linux kernel under the GPL even after it filed suit though it now disparages the validity of the license.
The Free Software Foundation claims that since SCO distributed Linux it means that it distributed its trade secrets and copyrighted material under a license that gives everyone permission to copy, modify and redistribute that software and so SCO's right to tax Linux users is void.
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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