Response to Darl McBride's Open Letter
Bruce Perens,
Sept 11, 2003
SCO's Darl McBride, in a letter to the open source community, offered on the one hand to negotiate but accused the community of hack attacks and of stealing a million lines of code. In a response which, as John Paczkowski remarked "forces open-source community to dip into sarcasm reserves," Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens basically say no dice. "We of the open-source community do not concede that there is anything to negotiate. Linux is our work and our lawful property, the distillation of twelve years of hard work, idealism, creativity, tears, joy, and sweat by hundreds of thousands of cooperating hackers all over the world. It is not yours, has never been yours, and will never be yours."
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