Gee, I don't know... Should I SCO? Or FedEx them a bag of human feces? Which, do you think?
Either way, I'm putting corn on the dinner menu, just in case.
$699 for a license, eh? Is it just for commerical users, and how to they define that?
Anyway, be curious to see how successful they are with enforcement of their new copyright. Cat's been out of the bag a long time now, and as a whole its current keepers seem likely to be quite disinclined to help it get back in there...
Posted by Tess at August 6, 2003 12:00 PMWell, the cat was never in the bag to begin with, that's the point. Linux, although based on an OS called Minix, was written from scratch. SCO claims that IBM's people slipped a little proprietary code into the kernel (IBM has been doing a lot of work on Linux the last couple years). They've sued IBM and now they want money -- apparently even from home users like me.
Putting on the tinfoil hat, I'd say Microsoft is probably behind this. Or at least quietly encouraging it. SCO has nothing to lose, and they haven't been a viable company for a while now. They've turned themselves into an organization based primarily on litigation, not products. Now you see MS running around sotto voce with a sort of "You know, this Linux thing could get messy... You don't really want to base your business on something that's still an open question, do you?" message.
I'm never ever going to pay SCO. In fact, I'm pointedly not going to pay them, and I'm going to the send them an email right now letting them know that.
Posted by wee at August 6, 2003 12:12 PMIt would be interesting if you could post the response you get (if any) on here for us to see.
Posted by Shane at August 6, 2003 2:06 PMI'll let you know what I hear.
BTW, you can have at it if you like: http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/index.html
Posted by wee at August 6, 2003 2:33 PM