Forwarding without prejudice...It concerns all of us.
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... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent
observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of
years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary
descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but
do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither
flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some
things with confidence! Evolution on an ancient earth is as well
established as our planet's shape and position. Our continuing struggle
to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not
cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" --
into doubt.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism",
The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2.
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Registered Linux User #285795
----- Forwarded message from Biju Chacko -----
Date: 08 Mar 2003 12:27:10 +0530
Subject: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products
Hi,
The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems) has launched a major threat to the
Linux OS by suing IBM for $1 billion for IP violations. Their core
argument is that Linux would have remained a hobbyist OS if IBM had not
leaked SCO's Unix IP into it.
This is bad because:
o It creates a lot of FUD about the legality of linux and the safety of
corporate IP when Free/Open Source Sotware is used.
o It implies that we (the Free and Open Source community) do not have
the competence to produce quality software without stealing IP.
This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO products. Do
not use or recommend the use of:
* Caldera OpenLinux
* SCO Linux
* SCO OpenServer
* SCO UnixWare
For more information:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2003-03-07-011-26-NW-CD-LL
http://lwn.net/Articles/24747/
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3D56225&&cid=3D5456337
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57955,00.html
Please take this seriously.
regards,
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