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Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)Posted Sep 15, 2003 0:01 UTC (Mon) by rev (guest, #15082)Parent article: Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News)
This interview underscores the idea that the whole SCO affair is an MS orchestrated FUD campaign, the halloween documents outlined what is now happening. This is why SCO won't reveal the alledged infringing code. It is in MS interest to drag this on as long as possible, i.e. having this aura of alledged copyright infrigment hanging around Linux, so that they have ample time to imprint their Linux is napster, Linux is theft, Linux users are thiefs type of "message" in the minds of the public. It raises the question of how we should fight this FUD. Somwehow I feel that detailed factual analasys of SCO's claims, like halloween IX, however right they are, don't cut it: all this nasty little facts are just too hard to understand for a journalist, let alone the general public. In addition, absurdities in SCO claims and are so plentyfull that a rebuttal tends to get pretty lengthy: too long for a journalist to consume. I would like us to develop a communications plan. There must be amongst us people with experience in PR... How do we effectively counter the SCO FUD?
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Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News) Posted Sep 15, 2003 8:01 UTC (Mon) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] I would like us to develop a communications plan. There must be amongst us people with experience in PR...How do we effectively counter the SCO FUD? Maybe we should focus on a limited set of important absurdities in SCO claims and debunk these in several easy consumables? ... Interesting idea, but you've got the wrong suggestions. The SCO claims are absurd and over time they contradict themselves. Why? They are not trying to win an argument, they are just trying to stir up as much confusion and get as much press coverage as possible. Therefore trying to meet them with counterarguments only makes things worse: it ends up generating even more confusing press coverage. The right solution then? Realize the fact that the press only has one thing on their mind at any given time. The best thing to do would be to ignore SCO completely, and generate other Linux news, completely unrelated to SCO, on a weekly basis. These news would have to be so exciting, that it makes the press just forget about SCO. This being said, it is worth to quietly try to educate the press on SCO. But this should not take the form of arguments, simple executive summaries are the best. Linus saying "SCO is full of it and Linux has probably the most sound and transparent IP foundation in the world" is all that is needed. In non-US countries, a local Linux company that is known to the media can simply say something like "an American company called SCO, whom most of us have never heard of BTW, is making some crazy statements about Linux. Please ignore them and continue as usual". This is basically the argument of SOT in Finland (backed up by effi.org) and it works great, because they have way more credibility than SCO in the eyes of the press. henrik
Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News) Posted Sep 15, 2003 13:14 UTC (Mon) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link] > "How can one be sure that the code of software that has been contributed by> programmers across the world to create this Linux software is unique and is not > lifted from somewhere else?" Well, Microsoft, listen: It's not our fault that you do not publish your sources. We do. You can look at our sources and find what has been lifted from you. We also keep track of who puts in which patch, and a number of our CVS (or bitkeeper in case of Linux) repositories are publically available. So publish your sources and we will be able to check if we lifted something from you. Or that you lifted something from us, which is far more likely, given that our sources are available, while yours aren't. Microsoft has a track record of stealing software, remember Stacker?
Interview: Linux usage raises big legal concerns (Gulf News) Posted Sep 15, 2003 17:06 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] IMHO, the only durable remedi is to win 70 to 90% of Desktops and as much in the Server sector,..., AND DO EVERYTHING FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.I belive having more PR structures or plans or whatever, is opposite to above, and not only unnecessary but also a big waste of time... WE ALL CAN LEARN NOW THAT THE PRESS VECTOR IS ALL PRETTY MUCH FIX UP IN ONE DIRECTION, DONT WE?? Linux/OSS grew so big with the press, if not against, at least not helping. So Linux/OSS can continue to grow much much bigger the same way.
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