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The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaignThe EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaignPosted Aug 29, 2003 19:06 UTC (Fri) by steven97 (guest, #2702)Parent article: The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign The EFF is making a mistaken here. Politics and justice are supposed to be separate. Asking politicians to intervene in the process of legal procedures other than creating/rewriting laws is a Bad Thing. It would be much better to figure out a way to get this case to court sooner and to try and form a community that can affort to take SCO to court and get them to show the Linux code they claim ownership to or make them stop making allegations without showing even a hint to any kind of proof.
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The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign Posted Aug 29, 2003 19:37 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] I agree with you. In fact, there are actually more important issues that need to be addressed by the legislature. Software patents is one of such issues.If defending against copyright allegations is hard, just think how hard it would be to defend Linux if SCO claimed that they have patents for the technology used in Linux. Unlike copyright, no code copying is required to be in violation. Just implement an idea somebody patented before you, and you are in trouble. EFF reminds me ACLU. They both seem to be rather indiscriminate in choosing their battles. A non-commercial organization supported by member contribution should be very careful to choose only the campaigns that can make the difference or at least a good point, even at risk of being called hypocrites by some critics.
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