The rise of Linux as an alternative to deeply entrenched Windows is showing that something new is happening here. While SCO has started menacing litigation over intellectual property and Linux, the message from big companies is that they are not changing their strategy . What is important here is not the fact that companies are adopting Linux but the fact that companies are starting to look at the OS as a commodity, one that can easily be replaced at a later time. This is an important development because it lowers the potential for control. In order to fully control what consumers have access to, you need to be able to control the environment. With operating systems becoming a commodity, that control erodes. - Tristan Louis
<http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/Route%20Around>
They are smoking crack. - Linux Torvalds, referring to SCO's claims about Linux
Linux is not a product. Rather, Linux is a collection of software components, individually crafted by thousands of independent hands around the world, with each component changing and evolving on its own independent timetable.
To think of Linux as a product is to freeze an inherently dynamic thing in time and to close something that is inherently open. It cannot be done without losing something--and something significant at that.
No, Linux is not a product. It is a process .-Ian Murdock
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5057321.html>
When I was in 5th grade, an argument about personal calculators broke out in the Letters to the Editor column of my local newspaper, an argument conducted with religious fervor. One one side were those who felt that calculators were, on the whole, a good tool and that students should be taught to use them. On the other side were those who felt that calculators were a crutch, that their use would pollute the minds of impressionable youth, and that their appearance was a sure sign of The End Times.
What both optimists and pessimists believed, however, deep down, was that their opinions mattered. "Someday," each of them thought, "someone is going to ask me what we should do about these here calculators." What the adults didn't understand, but me and my 5th grade posse did, was that caluclators, having arrived, were never going away. - Clay Shirky
<http://www.corante.com/many/20030701.shtml#46771>
The existence of Linux under any circumstances cannot be threatened in the United States of America. No matter what SCO's lawyers, Boies, Schiller & Flexner say, the US Copyright Act does not take priority over the GPL license. The context of the Copyright Act and the GPL exists as the Public Domain. Every other consideration exists as content within the context of the common good. - Tom Adelstein, GovernmentForge.org
<http://governmentforge.org/archives/000064.html>