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Originally posted by Zardoz:
Dont' any of you think we could do something, I just feel this is perhaps the place to do it. Perhaps I'm wrong 
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If anyone here is in school, now is the time to start bugging your administrations about using Linux (use the word "free" as often as possible, that usually works)
Same goes for anyone working in a large company
further more Zardoz
here is a list of SCO partners in the UK, tell them who you are and how dissapointed you are that your local (or at least National) Industry leaders (#1 rule of sales: always make them sound important, even if they're just a computer store)
are affiliated with a company trying to kill its competition in the most questionable of ways.
Send a letter, an email won't get much attention.
Don't make any threats in your letter
, but remind them that their associates, With whom they share a reputaion with, are (and you can use this) David to Goliath, except David's slingshot is holdind a legal pebble rather than a stone.
You can't attack a business directly, you can't just yell at SCO, nothing will happen,They've shown they aint gonna' budge, but if they were to start losing partners, and support, they would be finished.
If you would like to go this root you can't do it alone, contact your local or nearest LUG (linux users group) and tell them your plan.
Try and contact people of recognition in your community, and get them to do the same, if your in school great place to HQ from, if your a minor even better, your LESS likely to be sued for slander. If you are in school try and get your school to send a letter urging your local SCO partners to sever their relationships.
Public input can be a powerful thing, because a lot of these companies try to make a good name for themselves with the community and Gov. by doing things for the public, Donations to schools, charities, crap like that. If you can make the public stop liken' 'em the Government will probably stop liking them as well
