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There is a heated controversy going on in the Linux community because of a lawsuit that claims ownership of some of the code in the open source Linux operating system.
This Aug 22, 2003 open letter is from
Eric S. Raymond, President of the Open Source Initiative, to
Darl McBride, CEO of the SCO Group.

Mr. McBride: Late yesterday I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy masterminded by IBM. You have urged the press and public to believe that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little gray men from Armonk have put them up to it. Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!

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