Don't do business with a Canopy company [LWN.net]

Don't do business with a Canopy company

Posted Aug 14, 2003 6:28 UTC (Thu) by wperkins (subscriber, #767)
In reply to: Don't do business with a Canopy company by derby
Parent article: SCO vs. the Linux world…what's a Linux user to do? (ZDNet)

I don't know about all that mormon stuff. Claiming an organized religon is behind this due to the fact that a large number of the players belong to that religon is illogical.

I do not know much about Mormons either, except that they are a very close knit group of people, but when people create associations, it is a common practice to pick members for that association that have things in common with the association's organizers. This could be because the the association members are of the same religion, orginally from the same country of origin, or wear the same school tie. This is normal. The real issue is what is the purpose of that association. SCO's purpose appears to be to make money using lawsuits to inflate their stock price, and thereby profit. Eventually, the bottom is bound to fall out for SCO and Canopy. I do not think that most Mormons, or most people in general, would approve at all of SCO's activities if they understood the situation.

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Don't do business with a Canopy company

Posted Aug 14, 2003 19:22 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

I agree with you, and this is precisely why news organizations have lately fallen into disrepute on the part of free-thinkers everywhere. The only thing that counts, to people who "own" media outlets, is that bottom line. If sensationalism and good guy/bad guy portrayals make them more profit than honest journalism, then the quality of reporing (and the competency of the reporters,) cease to be important, as long as the end product is more hits/ratings/ad space.

Example: My grandmother, who was very kind and smart, was also about as "Jane Public" as you could find. Twice, when I visiter her and mentioned my involvement with the Internet. Every time I did that, she told me that the Internet was a place for pornographers, because that's what they were saying on the news.

The lawyers are likcing their lips at this. So are the media, because we can all be portrayed as thieves and pirates.

This is why, as I have said repeatedly, that the supporters of Free and Open Source software need to get all the dirt out in the light for people to see clearly. And I believe there is plenty of it.