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Online petition challenges SCO (vnunet)

[Posted May 17, 2003 by ris]

Vnunet covers an online petition which challenges SCO's claim to ownership of intellectual property in Linux. "Now the creator of an online petition is inviting users to sign up to challenge SCO to sue them. A message on the website reads: "I am a Linux user. I feel that SCO's tactics toward an operating system of my choice are unjust, ill founded and bizarre.""

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Posted May 17, 2003 6:06 UTC (Sat) by Yama (guest, #1791) [Link]

PCLinuxOnline [http://www.pclinuxonline.com] has been hosting a boycott against SCO for a while now:

- http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=871&forum=35

There is a petition asking SCO to end the litigation at

- http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4639

Online petition challenges SCO (vnunet)

Posted May 17, 2003 7:05 UTC (Sat) by Yama (guest, #1791) [Link]

Here are some shorter URLs for the PCLinuxOnline SCO boycott:

- Main Boycott page
- SCO news
- Petition to SCO

Online petition challenges SCO (vnunet)

Posted May 17, 2003 14:17 UTC (Sat) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

If I recall correctly, this pclinuxonline place was the one that advocated tracking the
whereabouts of the SCO execs and their families with the (perhaps only implied) idea that
giving them hell everywhere they go would be a good thing. All legal issues aside, this
violates just about every ethic that I can think of regarding personal privacy. Harassment is
wrong, period, no matter how much you like Linux or free software.

(Stuff like that does not do Linux or free/open source software any good. It lends credence
to the FUD that folks love spreading about Linux "fanatics" and hurts us more than helps
us.)

I went to this web site when SCO first filed its lawsuit against IBM. I quickly decided the
"cause" they were advocating was sound (there's nothing wrong with a boycott if you don't
agree with something a company is doing), but the tactics that were being advocated were
appalling. I'm now boycotting pclinuxonline...

As far as the petition goes, it seems harmless enough but I doubt that SCO (who so far
doesn't seem to care what the world thinks) is going to give two poops about it. SCO isn't a
branch of a government, after all.