SCO and Linux

I spent most of last night reading the comments given for an article that SlashDot.org posted last night. I found it after I see an article about how SCO is trying to get current Linux users to purchase a licence (UnixWare) for the snippet of code that is in one of the core Kernals. (another article that was posted today)

It is disturbing and hartening all at the same time. Disturbing by way of SCO’s actions to soe Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in the Linix community and those companies that use Linix or develop for it. And Hartening in that most of the Linix community (the guys/gals that are developing the open source) seem just pissed off, wanting only to know what the offending code is so they can cut it out of the Kernal that it’s in. Which of cource SCO is not saying what it is (i.e. FUD).

Then I see this article talking about how a SCO employee in the past was responsible for the offending code. True or Not this is a quagmire that I do not think the Linix community will extrcate itself from any time soon.

After all that, I wonder what Macromedia will do with Cold Fusion and how this will affect any of the CF programers out there. Also, I could not find anything out there, so… I’m a mac guy but hey I feel for the Linux Community and Open Source in general.