Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars
tony@the-sphere.org intoned:
Michael, this is very much within the topic. Whoever says that this has not much to
do with Debian is a little blind, or naive. But for sure that person (consciously
or not) is cooperating with the forces trying to break the free sofware movement, b
y hindering the effort to organize a counterfight. So go ahead and keep posting.
Please let me hasten to point out that the person who told me my post to
debian-user was off topic is no enemy to Free Software. He made it very clear
in his letters to me that he supported what I was doing and didn't want me to
make a mistake. Instead, he felt that the way I have been advertising the
article so widely is likely to weaken my case because people might feel I was
spamming. Linux fans are more sensitive to spam more than most, so he has a
valid point.
This person, who I think I would best not identify, said:
Thing is, Mike, I *agree* with you. However, I think you're at risk of doing your
cause more harm than good if you choose to use channels such as
Debian-User for your message
I could see how one could feel that way, and that is why I have been hesitant to
post much more about it here or other mailing lists. Besides debian-user, I've
posted the link to linux-kernel and the arguably more on-topic gnu.misc.discuss.
The very first draft was an article at http://advogato.org/ and the second
made front page at http://www.kuro5hin.org/ I've posted either the entire
article or a link to it in a whole bunch of +5 rated comments at slashdot,
causing legitimate accusations of karma whoring. Then I converted the whole
article to UBB code so I could post it to http://linux-universe.com/
It's having some effect because starting yesterday a search for "Let's Put SCO
Behind Bars" first showed up at Google with 137 hits, many of which are copies
of my article and most of the rest are links to it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Let%27s+Put+SCO+Behind+Bars%22
I'll be able to tell soon if people are finding the copy on my site
independently via the search engines.
Also people have started to write to me to tell me they're sending letters to
their attorneys general, and in some cases giving me copies of their letters so
that others may use them as examples. I've started archiving them at:
http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco/
You'll find the UBB code version there as well, with a plain-text version coming
up in the next couple days. The original article is still at:
http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html
I'll try to shut up now.
Mike
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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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crawford@goingware.com
Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
"I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak
out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared,
be in doubt, but don't be gagged."
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