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Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-sensible dept.

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.."

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  1. Listen up, kiddies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whichever one of you fuckies is DOS attacking irc.freenode.net, STOP IT! God damn little fucking cocksuckers!

    If you people want to DOS something, take on SCO. They are deserving of such pummelling.

  2. In Australia by dmiller · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I love Australia. We manage to get organised about insipid and vexacious cases about software but are apathetic about real issues: the copyright amendment act (DMCA), anti-terrorist leglislation (PATRIOT), the continual incarceration of asylum seekers in desert gulags, etc, etc. Maybe it is because we have a chance against SCO whereas our governments (state and federal, both sides of politics) are utterly unresponsive.

  3. Re:The joke is on them. by Bush+Pig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, do you belong to the Short Penis and Small Breast Lodge too? Greetings, brother.

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    What a long, strange trip it's been.
  4. Re:The joke is on them. by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > And apparently someone thinks my penis isn't long enough so I should pay them for that too.

    Your girlfriend? Ooops, sorry, this is /. you aren't allowed to have one.

  5. Re:World Top 10 - IT Wankers by smokeslikeapoet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    3. Hilary Rosen

  6. Re:Evil! by Poor+College+Student · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Microsoft and the RIAA could ever be pitted against each other, I believe would we have to call it the "Ultimate Lawyer Deathmatch Smackdown"

  7. Coffee by Cackmobile · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    S C O

    B E E R

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    -- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
  8. Re:Evil! by vandan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's the end of capitalism. The US corporate complex has cut costs by outsourcing, downsized, and generally f*cked people and each other over to the point where its largest customer base (i.e., the US consumer, corporate and non-) can no longer afford to buy its products. Because of this, deflation is becoming a very probable result. Once the housing market collapses under the weight of refinace-happy consumer debt, it's all over, baby. But I digress...

    Ha! Unfortunately it's not going to be that easy. You see the world is full of 'terrorists' and 'drug havens' and 'secretive regimes' that are ripe for the picking. I'm pretty sure that the US can keep their corrupt, greed-driven cess-pool they call an economy going indefinitely simply by invading another country every few years, stealing their natural resources and loaning the locals loans that they can never pay back for 'reconstruction' that wouldn't have been needed if it weren't for the damage caused by the 'shock and awe' / 'fuck 'em all' tactics to begin with. It's worked for 100 or so years so far...