Good guys 2, losers 0

Today was good day in the battle for freedom of information.

First, RedHat is not only suing SCO, but setting up a fund to defend all GPL software against the kinds of attacks that SCO has used against Linux. If there’s any justice, there will now be a quick and steep decline in SCO‘s stock, and Darl McBride and all of his cronies will be out of work and destitute before their stock-pumping IBM suit scheme can even come to fruition. Thank you, RedHat.

And second, Fritz Hollings will not be seeking re-election. There are still many enemies of freedom and progress in politics, too many of them in the Democratic party. But the guy who, not satisfied with trying to outlaw the general purpose computer, trained his guns on everything from remote controlled fart machines to digital hearing aides to Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon be enjoying a well-earned retirement far from the halls of power. Now if only he could take Conyers and Berman and Smith with him, we’d really be on a roll.

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