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Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 16:36 UTC (Fri) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620)Parent article: SCO's claims have absolutely no credibility (ZDNet)
I've already done most of the work for you. Please take few minutes to send an email to these canopy group portfolio companies.
I am also including a list of canopy group web-sites, and a sample of the letter that I have sent to all of these companies.
I want to make it clear that I am not just sending emails. I actually intend to do all that I can to boycott these companies, and to have others boycott these companies.
I want as many companies as possible to understand that any affiliation with canopy group could cause those companies to lose sales - during a time when so many technology companies are already suffering from slow sales.
Maybe this won't make a world of difference. But, if enough people will just send an email, maybe this will put a little pressure on the canopy group crime syndicate.
Note: the perimeterdata.com email didn't work, so I deleted it from this list. You may need to go to their web-site.
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salesinfo@altiris.com,
help@customercare.avenueme.com,
support@culturegrams.com,
sales@center7.com,
sales@cerberian.com,
sales@cogitoinc.com,
sales@communitect.com,
yslew@datacrystal.com,
info@devicelogics.com,
info@directpointe.com,
info@fatpipeinc.com,
info@geolux.com,
sales@helius.com,
info@homepipeline.com,
sales@iArchives.com,
sales@industrialtrainingzone.com,
brutledge@linuxnetworx.com,
tyler@luxul.net,
sales@maxstream.net,
jclary@mi-corporation.com,
info@mti.com,
pr@myfamilyinc.com,
ProTools@SaberToothTools.com,
ronastarns@aztecenterprises.com,
sales@caldera.com,
info@trolltech.com,
info@tuglet.com,
sales@viawest.net,
Sales@wrenchead.com,
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http://www.altiris.com/
http://www.avenueme.com/jsp/index.jsp
http://www.axiompress.com/
http://www.center7.com/us/
http://www.cerberian.com/main.html
http://www.cogitoinc.com/corporate/index.htm
http://www.communitect.com/contact.html
http://www.datacrystal.com/contact.html
http://www.devicelogics.com/contact.html
http://www.directpointe.com/company/contact.html
http://www.fatpipeinc.com/contact/
http://www.geolux.com/contact_us.htm
http://www.helius.com/companyinfo/contact.html
http://www.homepipeline.com/hpcontact.html
http://www.iarchives.com/general_info/contact_info.jsp
http://www.industrialtrainingzone.com/about.htm
http://www.linuxnetworx.com/services/index.php
http://www.store.yahoo.com/thewirelesswave/contacts.html
http://www.maxstream.net/contact.html
http://www.mi-corporation.com/contact/
http://www.mti.com/contact.asp,
http://www.myfamilyinc.com/about_us/information.htm
http://www.perimeterlabs.com/pages/general/?ContactUs
http://www.sabertoothtools.com/tools/contact_us.html
http://www.power-innovations.com/how_to_buy/sales_reps.html
http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/index.html
http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/investors.html
http://www.tuglet.com/aboutus.asp
http://www.viawest.net/contactus/default.asp
http://www.wrenchead.com/wh_mem/corporate/contactus.asp
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Subject: Boycotting all companies affiliated with SCO/Canopy
I have worked in IT for 25 years, and have been involved in several major purchasing decisions.
I am infuriated at SCO/Canopy's attempts at fraud and extortion. As well as SCO's FUD campaign against Linux.
As such, I will no longer purchase, or recommend the purchase, of any products or services from any company that is even partially owned by SCO/Canopy. I intend to encourage my colleagues to do the same.
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Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 16:47 UTC (Fri) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link]
I would suggest that rather than the phrase "fraud and extortion", substituting "treatment of customers, potential customers, and the general business community, and contribution to the creation of a sub-optimal computing experience for the general public". Or something like that. It is best not to use words like "fraud" until such has been proven in a court of law.sPh
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:05 UTC (Fri) by jbbm63 (guest, #13316) [Link]
You made an error. Trolltech (sp? the makes of the Qt toolkit used by KDE) is *not* a "Canopy company". Look up who owns the majority of the shares, it's definitively not Canopy. This was talked about a few times on SlashDot, actually.
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:31 UTC (Fri) by DaveK (subscriber, #2531) [Link]
Employees - 64.7%...
Canopy Group - 4.1%
...
SCO Group - 1.6%
Seems I'll have to refrain from using 5.7% of Qt!
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:06 UTC (Fri) by mmarkov (subscriber, #4978) [Link]
1. What is The Canopy Group? I have neverheard of it before, today I see the name
twice (in a comment after the ZD
article as well).
2. Aren't TrollTech "good guys"? Why are
they in the list?
Again, about the Canopy Gr. Is that an
alliance of those companies (SCO, TrollTech, etc)?
Like, say, Lufthansa, Air Canada and other air
companies are in the Star Alliance? Or is it
an owner of certain portions of their shares?
I hope none of these -- because of the importance
of TrollTech for us.
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:32 UTC (Fri) by jeff@uclinux.org (subscriber, #8024) [Link]
Canopy is Ralph Noorda's VC firm. It owns (and in most cases controls) largeparts of these companies. It is run by Ralph Yarro, and he has stated in the
press that SCO mess is of his design (also "...if you mess with me..."). Sad.
These guys were responsible for a huge chunk of the money spent on Linux
during the bubble, and IMHO, they are now angry they didn't have commercial
success.
J
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:53 UTC (Fri) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]
The Canopy Group owns SCO and many other companies. Their connection to Trolltech is that they own a 4.1% stake in it (follow the trolltech url listed above). SCO itself also has another 1.6%.The funny thing is that, if you go to the Canopy home page, they make it seem like they own Trolltech by listing it with all those companies they *do* own.
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 18:43 UTC (Fri) by mmarkov (subscriber, #4978) [Link]
"""Their connection to Trolltech is that they own a 4.1% stake in it (follow the trolltech url listed above)."""Hmm. According to that page (the link was provided by someone at ZD's forum), Ralph J. Yarro sits on the board of directors for Troll Tech. I have no idea how bad^H^H^Himportant this is.
Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.
Posted Jul 25, 2003 19:45 UTC (Fri) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]
That's probably due to the amount of shares that the Canopy Group holds. In general, the Board of Directors for a company is made up of the major investors (or their representatives).