http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031107080634551
SCO Will Give Customers a Discount To Drop Linux and Use Any Proprietary Software Friday, November 07 2003 @ 08:06 AM EST SCO isn't putting out press releases like it used to. Surely it wants you to know that it has cooked up yet another way to be loathsome to Linux. It will expand its licensing program (because it's been such a success, I'm sure) and now they will be "offering a migration path" so their customers can escape Linux and return to proprietary operating systems. Note the plural, please. Like, for example, Unix, even a competitor's Unix. Some say they mean Microsoft. Well, well. Why ever might they want to send their customers to Microsoft? ... So, they will actually more or less pay you to quit using Linux, all you freedom-loving folks. If this story is accurate, they don't care what you use, as long as it isn't Linux. They are willing to even lose you as a customer and send you to another vendor, if necessary. Now, there's solid business thinking. Unless... nah, all those rumors can't be true, can they? I'd better not say what I'm thinking or I'll be deluged with email from Microsoft astroturfers, telling me not to say things unless I can prove them. So, let's just observe a moment of silence, everyone, and we can each entertain our own thoughts on what this might mean. I know *my* thoughts on this subject are thoroughly entertaining. [snip] -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
