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 -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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