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OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the workplace-sensitivity dept.

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."

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  1. SCO can make LEGITIMATE money! by pridefinger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!!

    -Pride

  2. In wonder by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many of you linux boy and girls hav a new desktop image now? ]:3}>

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    1. Re:In wonder by Karamchand · · Score: 5, Funny

      I didn't know linux girl even exist!

  3. Missing arrow by arendjr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just missing a big red arrow with the text "You are here."...

  4. Re:Business model of OSDL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new penguin-shaped overlords.

    (see the poster)

  5. Good freaking Lord! by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

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    1. Re:Good freaking Lord! by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny
      In fact, that probably _is_ the logic, fighting stupid with stupid. I'm just wondering if it's maybe targeting a little too low -- press releases are one thing, but a cartoon penguin with a magnifying glass may be seen as insufficient legal advice.

      Still, Malcontent is right. You need to send this out as a 3 meg .ppt file (ideally with each round of penguins or humans sliding in from the side with a car crash noise) if you expect your technology to be taken seriously.

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  6. misguided campaign? by walterbyrd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.