Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up'

brakk writes "From this article at Infoworld, Linus responds to SCO's open letter in a manner reminiscent of patting a child on the head." chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.

Comments

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[greygent]

I'm assuming you must be a teenager, or someone who is oblivious to reality. So I'll give you some hypothetical reasons why someone wouldn't just up and quit their job the minute they don't like it:

- They have kids
- They have a wife
- They have car payments
- They have house payments
- They have many bills to pay
- The economy sucks, and working at Domino's Pizza does not present a viable alternative

Any other questions?

Re:*sigh*

[UtucXul]

>when someone mentions Stallman or Raymond, do
>youimmediately think of code they've written, or an
>image of them jumping up and down on a soapbox?

Maybe it's me, but emacs comes to mind with Stallman.

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[mark-t]

IANAL, but I am something of an expert on employment standards, having been subjected to more than my share of ***hole employers. As such, I've read my regional employment standards act from top to bottom more times than I can count.

Where I live, disrimination is only illegal when it is done on the basis of race, religion, age, gender or sexual orientation. It is completely legal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their past affilliations. I can't see this being any different anywhere else in the world that civil and human rights are protected.

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[cdrudge]

EEO doesn't mean equal opportunity for every person for every trait. EEO means that they can't descriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability. Notice past job history isn't one of them. I have the choice to not hire if you worked for SCO, not hire you if you are ugly, and not hire you if you are overweight. Would I be an ass if I did? Yes. Is it illegal, no.

As someone else stated though, automatically deleting them is probably against the law. All resumes should be kept at least 1 year depending on where the business is located and state law.

. What Are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?

* Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
* the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
* the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
* Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
* Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; and
* the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

Media Response Team

[Yog Soggoth]

It's absolutely critical that the Open Source Community counter one-sided stories like the one written by Reuters yesterday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030909/tech_sco_linux_1. ht ml

I would encourage all /.'ers to write Reuters to get their editors to take a second look at their story:

Here's what I wrote them. Please feel free to send my letter verbatim, or something similar. The more feedback they get, the less likely they will be to do a one-sided treatment of this in the future.

To: editors@reuters.com

I am writing in reference to the September 9 article on SCO's current lawsuit and critique of the Open Source community.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030909/tech_sco_linux_1. ht ml

Your article failed to provide any response from members of the Open Source community, or to articulate the views of the community, and as such was an entirely one-sided treatment of the topic.

The author lamely suggested that Open Source leaders were "unavailable for comment" either unaware of, or deliberately ignoring the mountains of responses generated in recent days, weeks, and months regarding the lawsuit, and in particular, and McBride's letters. Given the lopsided nature of the article, I suspect that the author did not try very hard to find responses from the Open Source community regarding SCO's claims.

In the interest of balance, I would strongly encourage you to write another story articulating the Open Source movement's response to McBride's letter.

For references in which the Open Source, and other communities, notably the Open Group which holds the UNIX trademark, have responded to SCO's claims in general, and to the particular letter being reported on in yesterday's article please review the following references:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003- 09 -10-016-26-OS-CD-CY
http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl _eben_moglen_position _paper.pdf
http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow .html
http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/unix-ba ckgroun der.htm
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco.htm l

Please give the following email addresses to authors doing future research on SCO's claims regarding the Open Source community.

moglen [at] columbia [dot] edu Eben Moglen
esr [at] thyrsus [dot] com Eric Raymond
bruce [at] perens [dot] com Bruce Perens
rms [at] stallman [dot] org Richard Stallman
torvalds [at] transmeta [dot] com Linus Torvalds

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[chrisd]

Actually, we refuse to do business with the Boies lawfirm as well...

It isn't really Guilt by association if you are part of the problem...I think this is a measured, appropriate response to SCOs attack on free software. Note the date is well after they launched the lawsuit, giving employees time enough to go find new jobs..

chrisd

Re:Now thats a long copyright

[chrisd]

Actually, the game is -set- 400 years in the future, the copyrighting at the bottom of the page is our little joke. If we take as long at Duke Nukem Forever, I can pretty much guarantee that we won't be in business...

Chrisd