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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.."
Have you ever watched a colony of penguins under attack from a few seals or bears. Nary a protest, just a little noise, and the hapless prey is simply devoured by the predator.
I think that Penguin Apathy beautifully reflects the feelings of the Linux User Community. The only defence for the penguins is by their sheer numbers. I see your point - we need to stand up to SCO and tell them on their face: Get Lost, We've got Better things To DO!
But then, who exactly is gonna bell the cat? ESR, Linus, Bruce and RMS have spoken, but they aren't directly affected by the SCO extortion gang. Corporates can't stand up as a gang, since most of them use similar tactics that SCO does - hell, I'd bet many Corporates would love to be in the same position as SCO - pay a few million - pick up Copyright - blast everyone else with that weapon! Excellent business strategy, in their eyes.
The only group that can pick up cudgels against SCO would be the Linux User Groups, Firms that promote Linux - IBM, HPaq, Siemens, SGI, RedHat, SuSE etc.; orgs like the FSF EFF etc. None of the above would be directly targeted by SCO - you can be sure.
Sometime back my sig was:
Linux Users are Apathetic.
Windoze Users are Pathetic.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
story. They get lots of ad reveniew from Microsoft
and Sun, and journalist are always on the take. Hey,
even the Slashdot editors have SCO on the
front page almost every day -- they love the
hit count are very willing to hype and overload just for the extra pennies.
They media will not ignore SCO, but you can
ignore the media!
( Expect more media FUD after EU approves
software patents in this Fall. Much more FUD
is planned for the future. We have not seen nothing
yet. )
Yeah no shit, look at the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The US fucked them over so good with all their "reconstruction" their economies will never be prosperous!!!! Certainly all those former Eastern Bloc nations are just mired, absolutely mired, with zero economic growth and no positive outlook indicators on the horizon for hundreds of years all because of the US stampeding around the world and 'fucking 'em all'. Lets not forget South Korea either. I think I read somewhere where something like 98% of all South Koreans were bitter because what they really wanted was to be annexed by the good and true, pure and kind hearted, North Koreans. Look at the economic situation there! North Korea is a bastion of freedom and individual liberty AND they have managed to keep up a top notch economy, while South Korea is just a cess poll of greed and corruption where 70-80% of the workforce is unemployed and those that do work make something like $3 a month!
I'm going to go out on a limb here. But I think that if we could just get rid of the USA, like some sort of neutron bomb or something, the entire world will once again live in the tranquil peaceful Utopia that existed before 1903.
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