[lug] Organizing against SCO?

[Hugh Brown]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:18, ljp wrote:
> this also happened in Germany.
> http://www.sys-con.com/banners/linuxworld728.cfm
> 
> They shut down their website..
> 
> 

I imagine you have also seen the article on slashdot that somebody of
import (I presume, I don't know who he was), posted a complaint on the
SEC's website via a form.

This morning I was thinking about communicating with the state attorney
general's office to see what they thought.

Hugh


> 
> 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