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A SCO-Fighting Press Kit

by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
Aug. 30, 2003

It is on our shoulders, each and every one of us, to help combat the SCO FUD. There's so much good debunking material out there that it should be easy for people to plop it on the boss's desk or forward an email with a list of juicy links. Since a lot of people aren't going to take the time (or just don't have the time) to collect these, I thought I'd pull together a listing of material with the help of some research and my readers.

Perhaps I should informally title this press kit, "SCO: Refute THIS":

OSDL's position paper on SCO and Linux.
MontaVista's statement on SCO
SCO's Web server runs on Linux?
Novell's latest statement on SCO
Inconsistencies abound from SCO
Round-up of how the community is finally waking up from the "They can't be serious!" coma and responding
A step by step debunking by Eric Raymond
A look into financials
SCO's previous incarnation, Caldera, already released the code into open source
What about those MIT experts that verified SCO's claims?
An attorney on SCO's claims
Linus Torvalds on SCO
Sun playing both sides of the fence?
An in-depth analysis of the supposedly stolen code
From the people who claim now that they never planned to sue anyone
Oh yeah, and they never planned to sue anyone
McBride claims that people who have put years of blood, sweat, and tears into Linux are only up in arms because IBM is organizing it
Where SCO says they're not after the GPL after saying they're after the GPL
Yet more SCO code claim debunking
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) finally wakes up about SCO
The Economist on SCO and Linux
A look at odd happenings with SCO stock
Major consumer electronics companies don't seem too concerned about SCO's claims or attempts to make embedded Linux companies pay
Odd findings about SCO's denial of service attacks
More on SCO's legal footing
A look at the company that owns SCO

Dee-Ann LeBlanc is an author, editor, course developer, and trainer who specializes in Linux.