The story happened a day before I flew for a couple of days... I was quite disappointed to discover nothing has happened while I was gone. The story already lost it's momentum and it is too late to do something now, Scop is the winner in this round...
I don't know if that discussion already took place in this mailing list, I've only subscribed today, but who should represent the open-source community in cases like this? As a community, we need coordination. Leaving Scop's saying as-is, without a replay from the community, is a backward-step for Linuxand the open-source in Israel. Soon, Mr. Scop will realize that he, or others, can say anything they like about the community without and problems or clarifications from it's side, thus allowing him to spill out his garbage without worrying - as we've already seen... This is a bad situation. My question is as follows, is there something/someone that represents the open-source community in Israel? I am not talking about a law-suit in this specific case, that is beyond the reach of the community, I'm talking about showing the Israeli public that we're alive-n-kickin', let's say by making some public noise through the media... Demanding Globs to allow us and publish a reaction to Scop's rubbish about the open-source and piracy... What happend here, in this specific case, suits a a group of a random gathering of people that has a little thing in common, not of a strong community that has something to offer... On Sunday 01 June 2003 00:23, you wrote: > Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote: > >Justice costs money theses days... > >I believe that is the main reason why nobody from the open-source > > community appealed to court with "Tviat Diba" against Arie Scop after he > > said that the open source community are all pirates... > > > >It's all a mattar of $$$... > > Actually, reasons go deeper than this. > > In order to do this properly, you would want to make it a class action. > Being as it is that in the entire history of the state of Israel, only > one class action suite was accepted, you want to make it a really firm > case. A class action libel suite is shaky at the best of times. > Individual suite costs money. In order to be successful, you would have > to show damages. Personally, if I see that I am losing jobs because of > this, I would be likely to go ahead with this. Otherwise, this is just > drawing more attention to the case. > > It is strange that we have not managed to get a response published, > though. It appears Globes are not interested in getting anything > resembling both sides of the story straight. > > Shachar ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
