[plug] Modest proposal - TSG-support protest

[Leon Brooks]

Who in PLUG (or out, for that matter) would like to stage a two-hour 
protest overtly IN FAVOUR OF The SCO Group's legal machinations?

No, I haven't lost it (I hope)... there's a twist...

We should be protesting that TSG's moves are the only way to go. And 
inviting journalists. And driving it way over the top to completely 
take the mickey out of TSG. (-:

    CAN'T BEAT THEM?
       SUE THEM!

     L I T I G A T E
    IT BEATS WORKING!

      ALL YOUR IP
    ARE BELONG TO US

    USABILITY IS FOR WIMPS!
     REAL MEN USE SCO UNIX

    SAVE THE
    DOT COM
    LAWYERS!

     ALTRUISM
    IS BAD FOR
     BUSINESS

      Q C
      NOT
    QUALITY

    SMP
    SUE MORE PEOPLE

    ...and so on, but with more imagination and variable font sizes.

We also hand out leaflets explaining our real gripe: that TSG are 
painting Open Source in false colours and want to charge royalties on 
every computer in the world.

This should be held outside the UCC, that bastion of Communist ideology 
and hive of code-sharing, and promoted with a carefully-worded 
tongue-in-cheek announcement that leaves just enough room for doubt 
about our intentions. And many pictures taken, including of protesters 
wearing laser(-pointer)-equipped inflatable (and/or cap-mounted) sharks 
on their heads.

The claim has been made that publicity will only help TSG, and I retort 
that this is only true to the same extent that they are allowed to 
control and spin the results. With their "my son stole music and all I 
got was this tee shirt" type posters, they spin the protest to destroy 
the message and make FOSS protesters look silly, ha ha.

With this black-humour approach, taken on/near a Uni campus, the 
business community can see events spun the other way, undermining TSG's 
seriousness (or "confront") which is all they really have let to trade 
on - and at the same time be left free to interpret this as just a 
student prank, rather than representative of the FOSS business 
community.

What one PLUG has confused, let another straighten out! (-:

Comments?

Cheers; Leon