Download it here. If this is real, it lays out SCO's position very clearly: Linux and Free Software are Evil and Must Be Destroyed. If these letters were truly written by Daryl McBride, what can we hope to expect? Read them. McBride characterizes Linux as being mostly stolen, and the GPL as being counter to US and European law. Not only that, enforcement of the DMCA will be the savior of the US economy.

Note that this writing goes far beyond SCO's claims in their lawsuit. In these writings, the basic premise of GPL licensing is attacked as being anti-capitalist, a ploy like dumping designed to put the competition out of business.

But the genie is out of the bottle; Linux and FLOSS are not going away even if SCO's suit succeeds. And while calling on Caesar at this point may seem like a good idea to McBride and others, if only to rescue their common stock, the end result will be to isolate them and perhaps even the US from the exciting things which are going on globally with Linux and FLOSS. Let's hope this letter gets laughed off.