Linux community told to 'get real'

[mikeymike]

Hmm, the author of the article seems to be missing the point.  The Linux community (the non-zealot part of it anyway) doesn't like SCO because it, largely directed by MS, is trying to destroy MS's main competition.

[mikeymike]

Experience shows the BBC have no agenda

Perhaps not an agenda, but they have definitely been seriously biassed on some issues.  Their coverage of the second Iraq war being one example, and their pro ID cards stance.

And anyway, the BBC is still a corporation, and I doubt their only income is from the taxpayer.

[mikeymike]

The BBC were not biased on the Iraq war.

This is an email I sent to some friends just before the war started:
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On the news, they were just showing some statistics of public polls about going to war with Iraq.

Regardless of the statistics being over or under 50% (give or take 20%), whenever a statistic was anti-war, they would say "a whole x% were against" or "a massive x% were against", and then "only x% were for"... I mean, can they at least try not to sound so blatantly biased, it's totally pathetic.  After that, they were coming up with statistics that obviously proved that the questions put to the people who voted were also biased, as they came out with things like:

"a whole 45% were against war with iraq, while only 49% were pro war, and even then 40% of those said after another backing UN resolution, and only 3% said regardless of another UN resolution", which means they had to have asked questions that were trying to water down the pro-voters' opinions.
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[mikeymike]

@ Wain

That's an old article, Novell have since then caved in on those claims.

[mikeymike]

Link would have been nice.

I couldn't remember where I read it :-)

[mikeymike]

support actions such as the recent denial of service attack on the SCO website.

What does that achieve?

[mikeymike]

The way you said it, I thought you advocated that...

[mikeymike]

I do want to add that it is utterly disgusting, in my opinion, for ANY reporting body to attack USERS.

But that's the whole point for SCO to embark on something like this.  They want to rake in licence fees.