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1. Comment - Does Open Source = Closed Mind?

   (Apr 19, 2005 - 12:30 AM)

   Does anyone recall Ms Didio retracting her claim that SCO showed Linux code stolen from Unix? I don't recall reading about it. Given the volumes published about SCO's "proof" by the people who know the code and where it came from, isn't it about time she admits she's wrong? If she already has recanted her opinion I'd love for someone to prove me wrong.
   
   If it was a quote in a blog by one of those extremist Microsoft nutjobs, then everyone would have ignored it. However, the problem is that she has said what she said under the guise of claiming to be an industry expert. Now that everyone and their cousin has irrefutably proven her statements about as factually wrong as anyone can be on the subject (in other words, a lie), it raises a few possibilities.
   
   1) She lied on purpose. Some people will do some fibbing about things they view unimportant, but normal, honest people won't lie about something major that others know about unless they believe they have a tremendous amount to gain.
   
   2) She lied on accident. The problem here is that she claims to be an industry expert. Having been demonstrated incompetent to evaluate important "facts" about an important event to the industry doesn't say anything positive about her expertise. Who's going to pay someone like that to do any "analysis" for them?
   
   3) Someone forced her to say it. She had no choice. Someone was holding a gun to her head. Her family would be in danger otherwise. So, who would be desperate enough to threaten a reporter to invent bad news about linux? Does anyone believe this is possible? I thought not.
   
   The funny part is that Ms Didio doesn't seem to grasp why what she said was wrong, and that any resonable person would think she's gone crazy or lives in Bill Gates pocket. Figuratively, she stood up in public claiming to be an expert on geography and then pronounced the world flat. It is not surprising that she is the butt of jokes, since she did it to herself.