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Could a long, drawn-out court battle slow or harm the adoption of open source?

April 26, 2017adoption battle Court harm open source slow

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Could a long, drawn-out court battle slow or harm the adoption of open source?

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JM: A protracted court battle between SCO and IBM will have minimal impact on the general adoption of open source as an alternative to proprietary source products. Open source is more — much more — than Linux itself. While Linux is undoubtedly the “pointy end of the stick” of open source solutions, it overshadows other open source participants, mostly because it was timely enough to be a Wall Street “darling.” MySQL, for example, offers a very cheap and powerful enterprise-capable database that can be used to readily replace other SQL databases such as Oracle. JBoss and ObjectWeb provide full J2EE-compliant application servers, for free, that are easily capable of replacing expensive proprietary application servers from BEA Systems or IBM. Apache’s open source Web server products silently power more than 60% of Web sites in service today! These are only some of the more obvious examples of open source solutions available today that are totally unencumbered by any fate that may befall