Interesting idea. Sounds like it could be a good assignment for some law students - anybody know a professor at UNC or Duke law?
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Greg Brown wrote: > ..and no, it's not McBride burning in effigy (though that does sound > like a good idea). No, what I'd like to see is a one page document > written up by a lawyer detailing EXACTLY why anyone should not, as a > company or end user running Linux, be afraid of this lawsuit. I DO NOT > WANT ONE SINGLE COMPANY to pay squat to SCO in license fees. I DO NOT > ONE SIGNLE COMPANY to be lied to by M$ saying how wincrap is now "less > expensive" than Linux and how running Windows would indemnify one from > legal action without a single page, easy to understand document > detailing why this is all a load of crap. > > A good start for that $1 million RH pledged is to get a one sheet legal > paper prepared by INDEPENDENT lawyers (or a lawyer specializing in IP) > covering all 50 states detailing exactly why this case is BS. It has > to be one sheet and it has to be easy to read and understand and it has > to have a URL pointing back to a web portal (and I hate that term) > detailing exactly why the case in BS, why they shouldn't license, and > why they shouldn't believe any of the SCO or M$ FUD surrounding this > case. > > That's my wish list. > > I know that someday I would regret the decision not to continue on to > law school. I guess that day has arrived. Honestly I don't know what > I would do with a JD if I had one, though I would think I would know > EXACTLY how far I could push this civil disobedience issue before I > actually broke a law. > > Greg > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
