On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Yep. I am not kidding. Are these slimeballs a bunch of maggot puke or > what? > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html > > SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU > By Ashlee Vance in Chicago > Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GMT > > > Linux users face a serious question. Is $699 too much to pay for a good > bath? > > The $699 scrubbing fee is exactly how much SCO wants for one CPU's worth > of a Linux license, and that's just for the time being. Come October 15, > the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399. > > This is the latest word from SCO handed down by Mr. Clean himself - SCO > CEO Darl McBride, during a Tuesday conference call. SCO had been holding > out on exactly how much it planned to charge Linux users for their use > of what it claims is borrowed Unix code, but now all has been made clear > - crystal clear. > > "Cleary, it's at a point and time where we are going to take matters > into our own hands and move forward," McBride said. "It's time to start > marching onward again with our legal claims." > > McBride enjoys referring to Linux users as a "tainted" bunch. He seems > to see them as some group of unbathed mongrels that that covet other > peoples' intellectual property for their coding pig-pens. > > This really isn't the nicest language to use for such an amicable crew, > especially when SCO's real beef is with IBM and Red Hat. But SCO claims > that IBM and Red Hat are the ones that forced it to put the blame on > Linux users. Since IBM and Red Hat won't rush to the Linux community's > rescue and hand over millions for unproven claims, SCO must attack the > little guys. > > And attack it has. Both the $699 and $1,399 fees are a hefty price to > pay for something you are not even sure exists. > > Does SCO own some pieces of Linux? Is it IBM's fault? Is Red Hat to > blame as well? Only a court can decide this, and the IBM lawsuit is not > set for trial until 2005 with any legal action against Red Hat following > that. > > Dropping a few bucks for a car-wash may make more practical sense in the > near term, if being clean concerns you. > > If, however, you are an enterprise Linux customer that wants to go ahead > and shell out a few grand for the 'dirty' Linux servers in your data > center, then give 1-800-726-8649 a call. Customer service representative > are standing by. SCO has hosed them down with a month's worth of > training. > > SCO is not saying how much a multiprocessor or embedded license will > cost just yet. Representatives on the conference call noted that > providing such information would bore the tech journos and analysts > ringing in. Not true. > > These details are to be posted on SCO's Web site at some point and time. > The licensing needs, of course, only apply to users of the Linux kernel > 2.4 and above. > > Should you have any doubts about how far SCO plans to take this death > march, have a quick peek at the SCO Forum page. It's here that we are > told, "The World Is Not Enough." (Thanks for that, Charles.) ® > > > > > --LX Hey, whatya mean usguys, you do too. The slimballs want the world. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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