Acacia, SCO, Groklaw, and Fight The Patent

[Mr.Fiction]

The unofficial nexus of the SCO affair is Groklaw, a bulletin board turned into a Web site. Here, you can find lawyers and code hackers busily engaged in pulling the bones out of every pronouncement that falls from the mouth of Darl McBride, CEO of SCO, and his merry men. SCO says it's sent IBM all the examples of the code it claims IBM infringes in Linux? Well, here's a Unix guy who's shown the 'infringing code' so produced was produced by a simple text search for certain words in the Linux source--and proof of nothing at all.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5110838.html

Here is a link to the SCO news site and forum:
http://www.groklaw.net/

Maybe someone should set up a forum like that to help get the word out and fight the Acacia patents.

The one area where those who believe Acacia's patent is worthless are seriously failing is on the public relations front in the war with Acacia.

[FightThisPatent]

Originally posted by Mr.Fiction

The one area where those who believe Acacia's patent is worthless are seriously failing is on the public relations front in the war with Acacia.

I agree....it's slow going in getting media attention....who wants to cover patent abuse cases, when you have all the fun with Michael Jackson and iraq??

What we need here is something sensationalistic... like a webmaster getting busted for running videos of Paris Hilton using images of michael jackson and little boys to promote the thing, streaming to porn-hungry iraqis.

Report that the video streams have to be turned off or face licensing fees by Acacia...... maybe that might make the news.





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