Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Ely Levy
missing a u there it's http://www.pclinuxonline.com/index.php :) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Dan Armak wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:47, Ely Levy wrote: > > see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) > > Hm, DNS l

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Ely Levy
come on how many open source projects do you know which supports SCO? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Mark Veltzer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: > > > > But there are other implications to this form of activ

Re: [OT] Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:23:43PM +0300, Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote: > Is there a date for the trial, or this circus is gonna last forever??? No date is set yet, as far as I know. This wiki has far more information than any normal person would want to know about this case: http://twiki.iwethey

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread linux_il
On Thursday 19 June 2003 20:16, Dan Armak wrote: > IANAL, so I don't really know either way. AFAIK you can't forbid someone > from using your trademark if he isn't directly competing with you, and a Can anyone define the verb "use trademark"? What does it mean? It's not like SCO claims their softw

Re: [OT] Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani
Is there a date for the trial, or this circus is gonna last forever??? -- Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani, GNU/Linux Kinneret. Public GPG Key: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/kinneret/z9u2k.asc = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mark Veltzer wrote: People who wish, for instance, to create an open source project which specifies that Israelis cannot use it are welcome to it. They cannot. The requirement from Free software (and from open source software) do not allow for such a restriction in the license. It is not clear h

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 19:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:09:01PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > The Boycott SCO apge on pclinuxonline.com has an interesting suggestion: > > "Linus, please deny SCO the right to the Linux trademark until they drop > > these suits and agree i

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread linux_il
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:09:01PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > The Boycott SCO apge on pclinuxonline.com has an interesting suggestion: > "Linus, please deny SCO the right to the Linux trademark until they drop these > suits and agree in writing to never pursue them again against any Linux > vendor

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:26, Mark Veltzer wrote: > Hello all! > > I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source > crowd in view of SCO latest outrageous behaviour: The Boycott SCO apge on pclinuxonline.com has an interesting suggestion: "Linus, please deny SCO the rig

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:47, Ely Levy wrote: > see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) ...should apparently be www.pclinuxonline.com. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:47, Ely Levy wrote: > see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) Hm, DNS lookup failure for that hostname... -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2F

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: > > If all of the open source applications will remove SCO support, SCO's > budget will be distributed towards adding this support back. This can > reduce the amount of money going towards the lawsuit. > > Or worse - if all of the maj

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Mark Veltzer
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: > > But there are other implications to this form of activism. Soon some guy who doesn't > like some country will add a clause to the O/S license banning use in that > country... Not a good precedent. > The owner of a project is enti

RE: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Oded Arbel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > I can't believe that I'm actually agreeing with Mark on > something ;-) while I > usually do not favor militant OS/FS tactics, these > suggestions might actually > be a good idea. If all of the open source app

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Ely Levy
see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Mark Veltzer wrote: > Hello all! > > I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source > crowd in view of SCO latest outrageou

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:26, Mark Veltzer wrote: > I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source > crowd in view of SCO latest outrageous behaviour: > > 0. Make clean ./configure fail on SCO systems by modifying autoconf. > User could still compile but not by de

Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Mark Veltzer
Hello all! I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source crowd in view of SCO latest outrageous behaviour: 0. Make clean ./configure fail on SCO systems by modifying autoconf. User could still compile but not by default (special flags to ./configure woul