[lug] Organizing against SCO?

[ljp]

this also happened in Germany.
http://www.sys-con.com/banners/linuxworld728.cfm

They shut down their website..



On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:47 am, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> Some folks from down under have filed a complaint with the Australian
> Competition and Consumer Commission against SCO asking that the ACCC
> investigate SCO for "unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats
> for money".
>
>    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/23/1058853121030.html
>
> You know, I'm all for protecting your intellectual property and all, but
> the way SCO is approaching it just seems wrong.  It's all about Fear,
> Uncertainty, and Doubt...  To me it seems much more like what a company
> that had no legitimate claims would do, as a way of trying to stifle the
> competition while a lengthy legal battle goes on.
>
> Now, before SCO has even provided any evidence to support it, they are
> claiming that current Linux users need to purchase a Unixware license to
> make it legitimate to use Linux:
>
>    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1200014,00.asp
>
> This particularly makes it seem like they are promoting unbased claims
> because from what I've heard they're complaint rests on features added
> to the 2.5 kernel, which nearly nobody is currently using in
> production.
>
> I think that many of us are just sitting back and assuming that SCOs
> claims will either get specific enough that we'll be able to at least
> address them, or that they will be proven baseless.  However, while we
> wait, SCO is doing harm to Linux with it's claims.
>
> I think that the Austrailians have take a good step forward with this,
> and wonder what would be the appropriate way to proceed with something
> similar in the US.  Pushing them to either prove their claims, or stop
> promoting fear among Linux users, and more importantly POTENTIAL Linux
> users.
>
> Is anyone interested in working to find out what the appropriate way for
> the Linux community to respond, and then working to get participation
> from the Linux community to make it happen?
>
> Sean

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