[brlug-general] Linux Users Unite: Stop SCO!

[John Hebert]

Well, crap. I didn't read that page closely enough. I assumed that it would
be printed and sent via USPS.

Thanks for pointing that out. Clay is right: sending an actual letter is
more effective. You can look up your congressional representatives for your
area here:

http://www.congress.org

John Hebert

-----Original Message-----
From: John Smith
To: General at brlug.net
Sent: 8/31/03 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Linux Users Unite: Stop SCO!

Instead of 'signing' some web poll that will likely have zero effect on
anything, why not print it and mail it to your congressman since the law
states that if you write them then they must write you back or send some
letter of acknowledgement(sp?) back to you.

		Clay 

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 06:30, John Hebert wrote:
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation has organized a campaign to contact
our
> Congressional representatives with a pre-written message that
expresses our
> opposition to SCO's actions against Linux users and is sent with your
> address on it. You can edit the message to your taste if you wish.
> 
> If you want to get involved, take a look at the following website:
> 
> http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2775
> 
> and sign the letter!
> 
> Here's some blurbage from the site:
> 
> Linux Users Unite: Stop SCO!
> 
> The SCO Group, Inc. recently announced that it plans to sue individual
Linux
> users if they refuse to pay the company a $700 licensing fee, which it
> threatens to double in the fall. This is an effort designed by SCO to
> bolster its licensing claims against IBM and Red Hat by beating up on
people
> who can't afford a multimillion-dollar defense. SCO hasn't proven that
it
> has a right to collect this money at all, so its attempt to hold
end-users
> liable is a terrible misuse of the legal system. Tell Congress that
SCO's
> tactics are unacceptable!
> 
> 
> If you wanted to fight back against SCO and didn't know how, this is
your
> chance. Please forward this message to other Linux and GPL software
users.
> 
> John Hebert
> 
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