Where to for the little people [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] found this on SCO vs Linux]

[Tom Adelstein]

fredjame at concentric.net wrote:

> Steve Baker wrote:
>
>> fredjame wrote:
>>
>>> With the high degree of unlikelyhood that I would willingly go to 
>>> court against SCO on my own (assuming the old divide and conquer 
>>> MO), and the fact that I would be resistant to the idea of paying 
>>> SCO anything, I just glanced over my shelf and found that in Red Hat 
>>> releases, according to the boxes, version 7.0 contained kernel 
>>> version 2.2.16, and version 7.1 contained kernel version 2.4.
>>
>>
>>
>> According to the Linux Counter (www.linuxcounter.org) there are probably
>> around 18 million Linux users in the world - plus all those people who
>> have Linux in embedded devices.
>>
>> I think the odds of SCO making it around to dragging you into court are
>> pretty small. 
>
>
> You missed the point - the speculation here is on "what if X happens," 
> not on the odds that X will happen, or even on the specifics of X 
> should it happen.


Exactly. This is the perception game. The operative term is "what if" or 
"Oh, my God".

This principle revivifies people's "I'm not okay" tapes and/or feelings 
of guilt. It's the basis of disinformation. The IRS has used this medium 
of psychological control for many decades.

"Don't cheat on your tax return - you'll get audited". And the odds of 
getting audited by the IRS? You'd have better odds playing the lotto. 
Yet, everyone knows somebody whose had an IRS audit.

That's why one needs to put a  gag in SCO's mouth.