I found a link with pictures of the "anti-protests" posters. http://www.kuwan.net/scoAntiProtest/index.html
These people are unbelieveable. On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 21:34, Gnu Man wrote: > I agree that SCO certainly has the F.U.D. machine in high gear, I doubt > that they involved themselves with Linux to destroy and/or earn fees > from licensed "derivative works". My personal opinion is that they see > this as a last ditch effort to save a failing company or to settle the > case and be bought out. > > Let's forget the politics and grandstanding for a minute and look at the > practical aspect of their argument. > > SCO claims that Unix System V code has been copied illegally into the > Linux kernel. > > If this is the case, I would imagine that if shown the offending code, > the Open Source community could replace said code in a relatively short > period of time. > > SCO knows this, but they want to drag this fiasco out all over the > courts and the media, getting "free" publicity from a potentionally > trivial problem. > > I think SCO's involvement with Linux is one of it's biggest holes in > it's case. If anyone put SCO's code in Linux, SCO itself would be one > of the first and most likely suspects. So I find it hard to believe > that this was planned before their involvement with Linux. > > However I do agree that this matter will effect the future of Linux and > Open Source. Hopefully when the dust settles, the truth will come out, > any copyrighted code will be replaced, and more people will see the > benenfits of Open Source software. > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Smitty wrote: > > On Sunday 22 June 2003 13:50, Gnu Man wrote: > > > Check out this SCO protest by a fellow LUG (PLUG, Provo Linux Users > > > Group). > > > > > > http://mirror.lug-nut.com/ > > > > > > Here is an interesting section from the web site: > > > > > > -->SNIP > > > "One of the more interesting parts of the event this afternoon was as > > > the linux users showed up to begin the protest, several people came out > > > of the SCO building with pre-prepared posters for the protest. In > > > several of the pictures you will notice them trying to mingle in with > > > the crowd, or trying to make sure their posters were seen amongst the > > > crowd. These posters had such winning slogans as: > > > > > > > > > I love software piracy > > > > > > I don't pay for my music, I'm not paying for my os, so sue me > > > > > > My son stole code & published it! And all I got was this lousy t-shirt > > > > > > Try communism - use Linux" > > > > > > -->SNIP > > SCO are truly enemies of free software and are attempting to position linux > > users with criminals. What has amazed me is how scheming and diabolical they > > are. It seems that they involved themselves with Linux for the sole purpose > > of undermining and subverting it. Real strategic planning went into this. > > It is not coincidental. > > Smitty > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
