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Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO
ashitaka writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that an Open Source group has gone on the offensive in response to SCO's latest demands that Linux users must buy a Unixware license to avoid any possible future unpleasantries. 'Open Source Victoria today filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, asking it to investigate SCO's activities in light of 'unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats for money' against possibly hundreds of thousands of Australians.' I especially like the last bit: 'One feels that this whole fiasco is the IT industry equivalent of a Nigerian scam or internet extortion ploy.' Oh yeah.."
Word has it that the complaint was aborted mid-argument, when the plaintiffs collapsed in a drunken stupor.
It leads to blind nationalism which can lead blindly into fascism.
Australia is no better than any other country.
France: Do the French use computers?
No! They use Freedom Computers!
If anyone will intervene to kill it off is the Democrats not the Bush & Co. Linuxe is Micro$ofts adversary and the Micro$oft is based in Washington state which is prety much owned by Dems that been always willing to do M$'s dirty deeds.
Given Bush's electoral strategy, he might be more interested in making Utah happy than IBM. I mean, he knows he's got zero chance of winning New York, and he doesn't seem particularly worried about screwing us. Hell, we're still waiting for the post-9/11 money he promised us.
why doesn't everyone running linux dump it and get one of the bsd distros like netbsd, freebsd, openbsd, enterthedragonbsd, etc... why fight legal battles and waste money when alternatives exist...
Aussies are no more than just a bunch of inbred crimials.