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President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

xoddam — 2003-05-12T11:02:53+00:00

Nah, kill 'em with kindness. Give free software advancement
awards to people on SCO's payroll. Speaking of which, why
did Vinod Valloppillil never get one?

President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

mfuerstenau — 2003-05-08T09:04:10+00:00

Well I think it is time that the members of UnitedLinux and all other linux organisations will immediately kick out SCO. I have cancelled my developer network account. The old SCO was nice. Caldera (at the beginning as a dream of Ray Noorda) was nice, but the new one is nearer to M$ than to any *ix company i know. So kick them out. Kick them out of every board, every organisation, every whatever. No hardware information for the development of drivers. Nothing. Embargo.

Martin Fuerstenau
Germany

President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

proski — 2003-05-07T20:10:41+00:00

The reference to "Windows-based cracker-underground gang" sounds just wrong. It doesn't matter if it was a gang or an individual, and whether they were Windows-based or Linux-based, or, say, KA9Q-based.

Even if the perpetrators were using only open source software it doesn't make the developers of said software responsible for the actions of those users.

President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

skybunny — 2003-05-07T19:13:57+00:00

I have drafted this statement alone in order to get it out during the current news cycle, but I am in no doubt that other Linux and open-source community leaders will join me in rejecting both SCO's accusation and any use of DoS tactics against SCO or other adversaries.

I'm sorry, but what about the above makes any suggestion that ESR should have no role as a spokesperson for the community? He is (as in, one of many) a community spokesperson, and sent out a press release quickly in the name of damage control and to make a quick rebuttal to SCO's claims. If other spokespeople (heaven knows why they'd support defacing SCO's website) disagree with Eric S. Raymond's point of view here, they can feel free to respond in turn, and will be heard.

Eric S. Raymond is one of several Important People in and around the free software and open source community. What he has to say bears weight, or he wouldn't have bothered making a press release at all. I for one am glad he said what he did, and quickly.

Perhaps you'd prefer a completely decentralized, idealless, and voiceless community, where all the time is spent figuring out who is important enough to defend the community - rather than...actually defending it? That's exactly what SCO would like...

President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

kalifa — 2003-05-07T18:48:49+00:00

However ridiculous may SCO's whining be, I am tired of ESR's self-proclaimed role
as a spokesperson for the "community".

Incidentally, I don't think true libertarians can be megalomaniac or control freaks.

President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims

microlhk — 2003-05-07T13:06:12+00:00

Well, Sir

You do not have to waste your time on SCO.

SCO is obsolete, technologically irrelevant, and made an insane attempt to rip-off open source contributors.

No need to worry, courts can find plenty of perfectly documented evidence on LKML and at kernel.org.

IMO, SCO may well have orchestrated this "attack" for publicity.

Let's really deny them - attention, coverage, contributions, usage ...

Michael Frank