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Don't do business with a Canopy companyDon't do business with a Canopy companyPosted Aug 14, 2003 3:31 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222)In reply to: Don't do business with a Canopy company by erat Parent article: SCO vs. the Linux world…what's a Linux user to do? (ZDNet) Worked for SCO? Any idea why they were calling people up end of last year into this year, lying that they wanted to ask a few questions about people's feelings about Linux, and wound up grilling them at the end about whether they ought not to pay for IP theft? I was one of those people, and they claimed they were going to send me money for that abuse. And, BTW, the person at the end of the phone was raising her voice quite a bit by the time she described how I would get my money when the "project" was over with "sometime in the future." Listen. I'm not a "conspiracy theorist." But something very rotten is going on here, and I want to know what it is. I also want to see the perpetrators pay for it. If that means going deeper than SCO, so be it. If it doesn't, that's fine, too. But either way, I do not care in the least that participating in a volunteer, community project like Linux earned me this kind of abuse.
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Don't do business with a Canopy company Posted Aug 14, 2003 5:04 UTC (Thu) by erat (guest, #21) [Link] I have no idea about any of that stuff. My team was spun off November 4th and we haven'tworked there since.
Don't do business with a Canopy company Posted Aug 14, 2003 14:00 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] There could be all kinds of reasons why people fool around with stock, but I can't think of *any* reanson why people would call me up, lie about what they want, and try to browbeat me into admitting I'm doing wrong (when I'm not,) other than pure evil. It seems to me that those kinds of things belong (if anywhere) in a police station or a court of law, with a lawyer around. Say "maybe pure incompetence" if you want, but incompetent people kill other people with their cars, and *they* are punished for it.Listen, I was a member of NORML for over 10 years. I *know* there are people, both in the corporate world and in government, who will do *anything* to get their way. One of them even told a woman he would marry her when he really wanted to find out about her marijuana use (which was quite minimal) and then turner her over to the police. He worked for the FBI. When she asked why he lied to her, he first said he never promised marriage, then later, under pressure from counsel, he said he was just doing his job. This is a *fact.* I'll say it again: Mormons or no, there are very rich, powerful people who don't want any kind of commons at all, much less Linux, and I believe they will do whatever it takes to stop people. If all that is part of a scheme to fleece people of their hard-earned money or divest them of the results of their labor in other ways, then I won't be surprised. I won't be surprised, either, if ther *is* some kind of coordinated effort involved, and I will *definitely* not be surprised if lying, betrayal, and pure crime are involved.
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