Some of it is very good. Some of it is quite funny. My favorite is the headline, "Linux Users Uneasy at Ruling." Was that between the dancing and the whoops? Maybe it's the champagne, but I don't remember it at all. So to you historians someday, trust me, it wasn't like that. All the warning articles that Novell might turn on Linux and sue over copyright infringement... well, they can't, I don't believe. Even if they did turn into Mr. Hyde and want to, which they won't. Don't you remember Chris Stone's 2004 speech at the Open Source Business Conference (scroll down to the picture) saying there is no Unix in Linux? That's not even going into everything they filed in SCO v. Novell. I believe we can rely on that, not to mention that no one, including SCO -- even after sorting through every lick of AIX code that humans could produce in the IBM litigation -- could seem to find any infringement to shake a stick at. And heaven only knows they tried like the dickens. So who cares who owns the copyrights? If the copyrights are not being infringed, does it matter? All signs point to no.

All the folks that used to write so much about how SCO would win are mighty quiet now, I must say. Nor did that crowd tip the hat to Groklaw for calling it right. For the most part, they pretend they never wrote those other predictions. Others find it really hard to believe what has happened and some prefer to say that maybe SCO lost, but they shouldn't have or that it's just one small victory in a story still to play out fully. Lots of warnings about this story not being over yet. There do seem to be forces eager to prolong an anti-Linux stench in the air, in the face of all logic, not to mention reality.
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