SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 13, 2003 @01:00AM from the unsubstantiated dept.

Tangential writes "New story on LinuxBusiness week says SCO is about to mount an effort to get all Linux sites to pay a per cpu license for so-called patent violations."SCO has been proposing to charge users $96 per CPU for a so-called one-time System 5 for Linux software license to protect their systems from SCO-enforced patent issues if they ante up as soon as demand is made." They've retained David Boies (DOJ prosecutor of Microsoft) to handle the legal issues." Note: I've been unable to substantiate this - which are fairly incendiary claims. Further updates as more is heard.

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What the hell ? by dnaumov · 2003-01-13 01:14 · Score: 1, Flamebait

This is bullshit, pure and simple. How can they claim IP infrigement in Linux if Linux was all about writing a UNIX-like OS *FROM SCRATCH* in the first place ? There is no SCO-owned IP in Linux and there cannot be. Case closed.

GNU = GNU is Not Unix

Duh.