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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • January 22, 2004
    Microsoft has been doing it:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949635.html

    So, why not the SCO Group, which has been out to sue everyone who has anything to do with its prime competitor, Linux?

    The Open Source & Industry Alliance (OSAIA) staff respond to SCO Group's letter to Congress:

    ``SCO is continuing to press its unfounded vendetta against open source software to Congress. Repeating the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that the company has spread through past letters and lawsuits, SCO executives are telling Congress that open source software in general, and specifically, the General Public License (GPL), which protects most open source software is a threat to the U.S. information technology industry; a threat to U.S.' competitive position; and a threat to national security. All of these assertions are false.''

    Full story at NewsForge:
    http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/04/01/21/2215220.shtml

    SCO Group's letter (PDF):
    http://www.osaia.org/letters/sco_hill.pdf

    The relevance of all this to bioinformatics is obvious: practitioners in the field often apply to the government for grants to develop software. If the government is anti-FOSS, then none of the software developed this way will be FOSS.

    Courtesy Slashdot.

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