I was just reading Alec’s assessment of Microsoft’s angling about alleged infringements of its intellectual property by Linux, and I was inspired to write the following list of things that would happen if Microsoft were actually awarded an injunction against Linux:
- Half the web sites on the Net would have to be shut down
- Half the information appliances, firewalls, and routers we all own would have to be retired
- Red Hat’s share price would plummet
- Novell would become a Microsoft takeover target vis a vis damages
- BSD would be immediately at risk of attack, putting Apple on the hot seat
- All those Linux-based gsm/wifi devices I’ve been drooling over would be in question
- Steve Ballmer would enrage the hacker community to no end
- Half of all the O’Reilly books sold would now be obsolete
- Every Asterisk phone system I’ve ever put in would become a liability
- Google would be in trouble
- Yahoo would be in trouble
- IBM would countersue
- Eric Allman and the rest of the free software crowd would probably march on Redmond, pitchforks and torches in hand
- The GPL would get a really serious re-write, which is in progress now anyway (v3)
Where do I sign up for my pitch fork?
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