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Sadly your loudest vote is with your wallet.  Refuse to use non-free
software.  Refuse to do businesses that require you to use non-free
software.  Explain to people every chance you get why proprietary
software is hurtful to society. (Note discussing copyright in general is
useful)

The problem is this notion of "intellectual property" and "control".  It
is killing the commons and hurting society (development) on the whole.=20
While it happens in music, movies etc... Those are 'entertainment' so
one could argue does it really hurt humanity to stifle them.  However,
science (technology) really does advance humanity so acting in ways that
stifle innovation (rather than encourage it) really are damaging.

Anyhow....

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 04:36, Entelin wrote:
> This intellectual property issue SCO is stirring up is out of line. I
> don't know what long term goals they think they are going to gain or how
> much money Microsoft has bribed them with. However they are slandering
> Linux and threating thousands of business's who are expanding this
> movement. As someone who tries to keep up to date about issues that
> surround our freedoms on the Internet, and ability to create truly free
> software I have become accustomed to the occasional and continuing
> assaults that we face from various groups such as Microsoft, DMCA, Music
> / video Companies and the like. However a company such as SCO who has
> put some effort into linux suddenly turning their back 180 degrees only
> to threaten everyone from IBM to the distributors and home users really
> makes me mad.
>=20
> Although I believe this will turn out to be a very self destructive move
> on their part I really want to do something to aid in that end.
--=20
Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
derek@gnue.org

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