FUD and Linux

Jeremy points to a Bruce Perens article which more or less accuses Microsoft of being the puppetmaster behind the whole SCO-Linux mess. Josh Allen has a great rebuttal that correctly points out that a conspiracy in this case is, ahem, unlikely. That’s all I have to say about that.
Well, OK, not really. I have to admit that I got a kick out of Eric Raymond’s contention (see page 2 of the story) that the Linux gang is the “principal source of innovation in software”. They’re busy ripping off copying reinventing every feature they can grab from vendors as diverse as MS, Apple, and Opera (not to mention Sun and Palm). I have yet to see anything as innovative from Linux as any of the following: auto-discovery of WiFi networks (Win XP), Quartz compositing (Mac OS X), browser-based S/MIME email (Exchange 2003), complete support for FireWire 800 (Apple), support for IP over FireWire (Apple, Microsoft, and some other third-party ISVs)… I could probably think of some others, but I have real work to do.