Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth tom marinis: Gee, too bad I use Slackware now :) Besides, the only thing that SCO's lawyer could say Monday that could frighten me is to say that Linus Torvalds now works for SCO. E. I'd switch to *BSD if that happened. Kurt -- This life is a test. It is only a test.

Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread Kurt Wall
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/HNscolicense_1.html -- You will lose your present job and have to become a door to door mayonnaise salesman. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread ronnie gauthier
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:15:25 -0400 - Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Latest From SCO License? I dont need no fscking license! I have two boxes at home that say Caldera on them and contain what I now consider to be a license to run as many copies of any linux I want

Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:50:58PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:15:25 -0400 - Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Latest From SCO License? I dont need no fscking license! I have two boxes at home that say Caldera on them and contain what I now consider

Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry McBride
PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Latest From SCO License? I dont need no fscking license! I have two boxes at home that say Caldera on them and contain what I now consider to be a license to run as many copies of any linux I want. If they keep pushing this thing I'm going to waste a few dollars

Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:27, Jerry McBride wrote: That's just what MicroSoft wants you to do... What we're seeing is the MicroSoft touch of death (tm) reaching us... through SCO. It's really a shame too. When I read that SCO reps were in Japan recently I wondered why. Then a week or so later

Re: Latest From SCO

2003-07-19 Thread tom marinis
--- Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/HNscolicense_1.html Gee, too bad I use Slackware now :) Besides, the only thing that SCO's lawyer could say Monday that could frighten me is to say that Linus Torvalds now works for SCO. E.

Re: the latest from sco

2003-06-03 Thread dep
begin Roger Oberholtzer's quote: | And by licenses, I would imagine that must mean SOURCE licenses, | Since my Caldera came with the SOURCE (GNU and all that) as well as | a License from SCO, am I a SOURCE licensee? Of course, not of | UnixWare/SVR5. The interview referrd to 30,000 licensees.

Re: the latest from sco

2003-06-03 Thread Shawn L Johnston
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: And by licenses, I would imagine that must mean SOURCE licenses, Since my Caldera came with the SOURCE (GNU and all that) as well as a License from SCO, am I a SOURCE licensee? Of course, not of UnixWare/SVR5. The interview referrd to 30,000 licensees. These cannot be

Re: the latest from sco

2003-06-03 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:55:58 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's no way i can find, or anyone i can find who does not get paid by sco who believes, that users are at any risk at all. I feel this as well. Still, I was surprised to get the letter in the e-mail from them. The 'funny'

Re: the latest from sco

2003-06-02 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:07:06 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin Roger Oberholtzer's quote: | http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesi | d=360 | | SCO has found no case in which it believes that Linux use by | anyone is legal, Sontag said. | | Even the ones

the latest from sco

2003-05-31 Thread dep
darl and chris held a teleconference today. the upshot apparently is that their basis for enforcement is the contracts which they have with unix licensees. which is to say that they intend to go after *their own customers.* if they have figured out a per-enemy payment scheme, they'll grow

Re: the latest from sco

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 30 May 2003 16:20, dep wrote: darl and chris held a teleconference today. the upshot apparently is that their basis for enforcement is the contracts which they have with unix licensees. which is to say that they intend to go after *their own customers.* if they have figured out a

Re: the latest from sco

2003-05-31 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Friday 30 May 2003 01:20 pm, dep wrote: darl and chris held a teleconference today. the upshot apparently is that their basis for enforcement is the contracts which they have with unix licensees. which is to say that they intend to go after *their own customers.* if they have figured out a

Re: the latest from sco

2003-05-31 Thread Joel Hammer
SCO has found no case in which it believes that Linux use by anyone is legal, Sontag said. This is a very aggressive statement. These guys are getting set to play hardball. Based on my experience with lawyers, the guys who talk the most to the newspapers have a weak case, are trying to