Burns, Have you or David considered sumitting this to /. for greater exposure?
-L --- burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following forwarded message outlines David Skoll's (of Roaring > Penguin.com and author of the standard PPOE DSL interface) plea for > assistance in his battle against the CAAT organization's tactics. CAAT > is a > coalition of large proprietary corporations, led by Microsoft, That > have > started to take enforcement of software licensing into their own > hands. This > ranges from the now infamous threatening letters, to walk-in audits > and > lawsuits. What seems to bother people the most is not so much the > rights they > are attempting to protect, but the methods that they are employing. > > David's proposition is simple -- avoid CAAT threats and goon squad > searches > of your workplace by simply moving as much as possible to open source > software, preferably Linux. His aim is two-fold: object to the CAAT > methods > and pomote open source altenatives. > > Our LUG here in Ottawa has picked up the ball and is supporting David. > I'm > sure he would be grateful for any help anyone could give him. > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: [oclug] Re: [linux-consult] stay-legal.org in Ottawa Business > > Journal, > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:18:30 -0500 (EST) > From: "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi, > > I have updated http://www.stay-legal.org/ with some links, partly to > refute > the CAAST rep's comments in the Ottawa Business Journal article. > > I'm DESPERATELY seeking help maintaining www.stay-legal.org; I do not > have the time to do it myself. If anyone can contribute links, > content > or design, please send it to me! If you want to take over > maintainership, > even better. > > Regards, > > David. > > _______________________________________________ > oclug mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug > > ------------------------------------------------------- ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
