>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Davidson >Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 5:00 AM > >There are too many numbers running around. The $699\$1399 numbers are >the before Oct 15/after Oct 15 price for a single-cpu server. The $199 >number I quoted is the before Oct 15 price for a single-user desktop >machine. See http://www.sco.com/scosource/description.html They do >not give the after Oct 15 price for a desktop. > >So you can sort of pick your own amount that you're not going to >pay. [My desktop has Apache running on it. So which would I owe if I >were going to pay? :-) ] >
OK, will the amount I am not going to pay then is 1 cent.. they will not get one cent out of me... The reason they are doing this, is very very simple.. they have dropping revenue and no way to improve the situation since SCO unix is not the best choice unix anyway. (IBM is not complaining about AIX, neither HP about HP-UX or Sun about solaris being made worthless by Linux.) SCO just don't have anything else thats making money and they had to do something to stop their shareprice going down the toilet. The only way to make the company of interest to the shareholders is to engage in legal action. As for charging for linux, well they are furthering the scare tactics, trying to show how "Serious" they are.. They might even scare a few away from linux or to buy a license... Problem is that anyone that pays it, can sue them later if they are found to have no case. I think that its a safe bet that SCO won't be part of the IT industry's future, they have burnt every bridge accept M$ and M$ doesn't want Unix around either. I think IBM and Novell should get together and counter sue SCO for making unproven claims and trying to extort their linux clients. Have SCO barred from making such claims till its proven in court. In other words, "put up or shut up!" IBM and Novell can also sue that their linux business has been hurt by SCO's unproven claims and sue for damages. I am surprised at how little action has been taken in the US to counter this.. they should be following the Europeans and have it ruled that SCO must prove their claims before being able to try to extort customers. rgds Franki
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