[vox] [fwd] Save your SCO invoice: Bay Area Software Professionals for Responsibility and Accountability]

[Rod Roark]

Perhaps it would also help to complain to the SEC about
SCO's management making false public statements for the
purpose of inflating their stock price.  Last I heard, this
was illegal.

There's a handy form at:

  http://www.sec.gov/complaint/cf942sec9570.htm

--
Rod Roark, Sunset Systems     http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
Offering preconfigured Linux computers and custom software.
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On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:22 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:48:46 -0700
> From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org>
> Subject: [svlug] Save your SCO invoice: Bay Area Software Professionals for
> 	Responsibility and Accountability
> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org, baspra-announce@alt.org
> Cc:
>
> If you receive an "invoice" from The SCO Group, please do not waste it
> on a prank or expression of contempt for SCO -- they're certainly
> expecting that.  If you want to do something symbolic with your
> "SCO invoice", make a copy.
>
> After careful consideration, you may decide to give the false invoice
> to law enforcement as part of a request to investigate SCO for fraud.
>
> We are starting a low-traffic announce-only mailing list to share
> information on Bay Area community responses to the SCO invoice
> scam, which will most likely include giving the "invoices" to law
> enforcement.
>
> Who:   Bay Area Linux users, especially anyone who thinks that he
>        or she may receive a false invoice from The SCO Group
>
> What:  Mailing list for announcements regarding local responses to
>        SCO's fraudulent mailing
>
> Where: Sacramento, probably, that's where California Attorney General
>        Bill Lockyer is.
>
> When:  Subscribe now, more info after the "invoices" come.
>        http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/baspra-announce
>
> Why:   Because we're software professionals who are for responsibility
>        and accountability (see subject).
>
> Doing some symbolic action with your "invoice" may be satisfying
> or attention-getting, but SCO is expecting this.  But as soon
> as they use false claims to attempt to get money from anyone,
> they're doing something that is at least legally questionable,
> and that you may wish to have law enforcement take a look at.
>
> Please _save_ the "invoice" and envelope.