On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 00:25:25 -0800 (PST) Ivan Torres Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mr. Darl McBride > President & CEO > The SCO Group, inc. > > I___m new to the Open Source movement and I have a > word to you and the world. > > You are proposing that the U.S. Government take legal > actions against the Open Source Community and the GPL > (General Public License) based software, a very > serious proposal. > > You say that this movement has serious implications > like: Your nation___s economy may be affected, the > ability to lead the world in technological innovation > is disappearing, the international competitive > position of your country in the global software > industry is compromised, and even worst, you presume > that it is a national security issue. I___m going to > defeat every point that you___ve addressed in the > letter that you send to the Honorable on January 8 of > 2004. > > First of all your country, and mine too, is held on > capitalism and it___s true that Linux is making a > revolution in the software industry and it represents > a threat for companies based on copyright model like > yours. One of the biggest believes of capitalism is > that people must have choices, monopoly is against it > (like you actually do), and it seems that you are > proposing a kind of one, aren___t you? People must > have choices, Open Source is a very good one, and most > important it___s made with the efforts of many > volunteers around the world, people who wanted a > better OS. > > In the book ___Business at Speed of Thought___, Bill > Gates remarks that companies must on providing value > added services (Alvin Toffler said that too in the > Third Wave, and Michael Dell), those that do not stick > to it will die in the in the middle of the way. > Companies must focus on deliver services rather than > products and your company isn___t doing it well as I > can tell. You must face that UNIX age has come to its > end, like DOS, and there is nothing that you can___t > do about it. If the whole world is adopting Linux, it > is definitely, the world___s choice, my choice. A > choice that the U.S. Constitution protects (Remember > Microsoft___s case?), and again, also my country and > the U.S.M. Constitution. > > If U.S. looses the technological lead, which I don___t > see it coming, other countries are in his own right to > take that lead. U.S. is not the only country that > matters; you are not alone in here, we all live here > on planet Earth (Yes, the pretty blue one, have seen > it?). It is time that U.S. stop trying to protect > their industry at all costs, usually in an unilateral > way. Linux is not a real threat, it___s a challenge, > it___s a revolution on software industry, it___s the > consolidation of the services era whether it affects > you or not. > > Because software is knowledge that digital society > needs. The software is accumulative and it can___t be > well developed if there___s blocked pieces protected > by copyright patents, technological growth will be > stalled if free software wouldn___t exists. Let me > give you some examples of this: Informix came from a > free object relational database system named > POSTGRESQL; Macintosh also came from another UNIX like > OS, the Free BSD; the most powerful and used web > server is Apache which is used by the biggest search > engine Google (Which also is based in FreeBSD). So, it > isn___t true that software industry will collapse with > Open Source but to let people like me develop better > and free software. > > Linux is not a threat for the software industry, > it___s just changing it. At my work we still use > Microsoft Tech, HP UX, Solaris and Linux. Isn___t this > a message to you and your company that you must change > the way of doing business? HP has made a fast move > providing Linux solutions, IBM, Red Hat is another > one, Novell is taking that way too and they are taking > the lead, all them American companies (and now against > you). So it is not true that your country may lose the > industry lead. They are not out of business but you. > > I___m not an expert in this matters, but the use of my > common sense tells me that Linux is a smart move for > many companies, specially for countries in ways of > development. SCO Group should change the way to see > things; this is not the way of winning new customers > (forcing and threat them to not use Linux) but to aid > with new enemies, isn___t enough MYDOOM attacks to > your corporate web site to realize it! > > Iv__n Torres > A proudly Linux user! Nicely said, Ivan. I think Darl knows it already, he just doesn't want to. But that won't stop reality. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
