Where to for the little people [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] found this on SCO vs Linux]

[Tom Adelstein]

fredjame at concentric.net wrote:

> With the high degree of unlikelyhood that I would willingly go to 
> court against SCO on my own (assuming the old divide and conquer MO), 
> and the fact that I would be resistant to the idea of paying SCO 
> anything, I just glanced over my shelf and found that in Red Hat 
> releases, according to the boxes, version 7.0 contained kernel version 
> 2.2.16, and version 7.1 contained kernel version 2.4.
> <begin speculation>
> If the "offending" kernel versions are >= 2.4 then (at least in RH) 
> one would have to drop back to at <= RH 7.0, which was a sucky release 
> IMHO.  IMHO (again) that would mean RH 6.2, which while not great 
> could be OK.
> <end speculation>
>
> That said, if anyone were to come up with a viable plan to soundly 
> trounce SCO (which IMHO would be a slap in the face to MS as well - 
> re: their "support" of SCO) I could be very interested in hearing 
> about it. 

We may not need to go to court with SCO. I just set up a set of links to 
the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Complaint Form OMB #3084 0047 at 
linuxlobby.org.

I also discover that the FTC has a relationship with Australia's 
Competition and Consumer Commission where Open Source Orgs have already 
filed complaints.

see http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/

The FTC will investigate SCO if we file enough complaints via the Internet.

I'm looking into the best method of placing a gag order on SCO. Case 
history indicates that we can use a similar technique as the one 
deployed against Ashton Tate when they attempted to copyright DBII and 
went after Foxbase.  Like SCO, a religious connection existed.

BTW, DBII was writen by NASA. Do you think that NDA's promulgation of SE 
Linux might carry any weight in the arguments?  SCO will have to fight 
that battle also. Venue is important for the gag order.

A Temporary Restraining Order with a hearing for a permanent injunction 
can be filed and it will shut SCO up for one week minimum. This would 
also bring in extensive media exposure.

Timing is everything here.

Depending on where we file, we can also file for competency hearings. I 
would ask those for their CEO and counsel. It's possible that they may 
have a calling from God to pursue this course.
 
Their attorney, David B. also represented Al Gore in the Florida ballot 
fiasco. He's said that Linux would be like a go-cart if it wasn't for 
the SCO code.  I'd like use his lack of expertise as part of the 
injunctive process for the gag.

I'm going for it.







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