Linked by David Adams on Tue 30th Nov 2004 16:11 UTC
Have you partaken in the conspiracy theories about Microsoft's recent investment in Vintela, a Unix-Windows integration software company? Vintela's association with SCO, and Microsoft's apparent interest in keeping SCO's legal battle against IBM afloat in order to undermine Linux, certainly provide plenty of kindling to keep the home fires burning at conspiracy central. But let's try to get the story straight first. OSNews interviewed Vintela President Dave Wilson.
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"Vintela has no involvement in SCO’s litigation and would neither benefit nor suffer from an outcome either way."
Isn't this a bit of a short-sighted view? ('scuse the pun)
I was under the impression that, although it isn't the major part of the case, SCO's team are vying to have the GPL labelled as "illegal".
Surely if SCO "won" their case, and the GPL was labelled deemed to be illegal, then Vintela would have some problems at least?
I know Vintela are not a Microsoft/Linux integration solutions company, but a Microsoft/*nix integration solutions company, but if Linux was taken out of the picture (by way of the GPL being "illegal"), then that would potentially knock out a fair-sized proportion of Vintela's customer base?
Or am I being the short-sighted one?