Article from CNET (English)


This particular episode is not looking like chess right now. No, it rather reminds us of going to the beach as a small child and building sand castles. Maybe you had the same experience: there was always one kid, who, when he saw what you had built, instead of trying to make his own castle bigger or better, would come over and try to kick yours down. Somehow, that made him feel better. The above statement of Chris Sontag is in that same vein. Rather than act rationally and start a discussion of realistic payment for use of intellectual property over which there is some dispute, his reaction is to strike out and destroy. He wants to pull everyone else down to his level.


The Free Software movement is in direct contrast to this childish and aberrant behavior. Millions of people all over the world are combining their minds and resources to efficiently create resources which help everyone on the planet. Will it be the natural evolution of the Linux and Free Software revolution, to escape the developed countries while they destroy themselves out of envy, and move to countries and cultures where people cannot even begin to understand the what or why of their conflicts? Right now, in SCO v. Everyone Else, it looks that way.

Willy Smith, reporting from Costa Rica