DLF Response to Generative AI and D: An Open Letter

[Adam Wilson]

On Saturday, 18 July 2026 at 10:03:42 UTC, Mindy (0xEAB) wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 July 2026 at 01:48:19 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday, 17 July 2026 at 19:32:16 UTC, Indraj Gandham wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, history shows this is often not the case.
>>
>> What history?
>
> • <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes>
> • 
> <https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/12/Microsoft_Has_a_Long_and_Proven_History_of_Funding_Meritless_La.shtml>

SCO? The thing that died well over a decade ago and built so much 
case law in the US that the tactic is now effectively useless 
because the SCO losses are article #1 for the defense?

I was hoping for something I hadn't already thoroughly read.

Microsoft has since admitted that the whole thing was a financial 
and legal disaster for them.

Ironically, SCO is a cautionary tale about why it's not always a 
good idea to prodigiously throw around copyright lawsuits. It can 
end up back-firing in pretty spectacular ways. Something that the 
anti-LLM camp should consider at length before diving in.