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OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign
prostoalex writes "Open Source Development Labs announced a new initiative to increase customer confidence in using Linux in business. The initiative is launched in answer to legal claims by SCO Group. So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process."
What if they went on tour? 32 cities in 25 days...
Make sure all the big guns are there...Darl, et al...
And have a dunking machine...:)
I'd pay money for that!!!
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Pretty Pictures!
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Its very managment speak with a few differenet coloured tux's
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This is the exact thought going through a management type's head:
Lawsuit...bad.
Poster...pretty! Sign me up!
Now, if we wanted to really influence them, we'd put flashy things on it.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
I'm just missing a big red arrow with the text "You are here."...
I, for one, welcome our new penguin-shaped overlords.
(see the poster)
OK, the next time someone spouts off about "Joe Sixpack", "marketdroids" or "lusers", keep this helpful bit of highly technical documentation in mind:
A diagram explaining how Linux code is written by humans, approved by two layers of penguins (one with a briefcase) and then passed on to human users.
What is the target audience supposed to do, go to their legal division and say, "No, there's no problem with Linux! See this explanatory document? All code is approved by a penguin. And yes, the GIMP is a perfectly suitable professional replacement for Photoshop. Notice the beautiful use of the select and fill tools?"
Am I the only one who thinks this diagram looks like an outtake from a Troy McClure film? "Mr. McClure, SCO says Linus stole their code!" "Not true, Timmy! As this diagram indicates, all code in Linux is approved by two levels of penguins!"
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?
But... but... look at the arrows! There's a flow between me, the market, a funny fat penguin and even some big magnifying glasses! Now I just need a seminar to learn what it all means!
No comment about the poster - it speaks for itself - but the article on internetnews was really quite good. It looks like OSDL is making a concerted effort to explain the kernel development process in such a way to factually counter SCO's claims. Peer review isn't perfect, but it is a very powerful tool for oversight of a project such as software development. With the information from internetnews it should now be possible for people who were otherwise in doubt to see how unlikely it is that "one million lines" of SCO-owned code could make it into the Linux kernel.
Linux end users need to understand that *they* can not be sued. Forget the ibm v scox case - that is a case between ibm and scox.
The idea that scox can sue linux end users is completely absurd - even if ibm did break some contract, even if there is illegal code in linux.
Companies and individuals that buy linux in good faith, have done nothing wrong. They have not violated any copyright - and certainly they have not violated any patent, trademark, or trade secret. Therefore, scox has absolutely no grounds to sue linux end users. I don't care if ibm broke one hundred contracts with scox. That is the message that the needs to get to the linux end users.
Well, it's still better than the SCO strategy, which is feed Darl McBride beans, point a microphone at his butt, and call it a press release.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
You can't spell SCOundrel without SCO
Come on, we all new it from the start !!!