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

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. --asshat-- by Android+robot+head · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    asshat

  2. FIRST FISH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I AM A FISH!

  3. Hi Hemos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This story is a fake. A troll.

    You have been trolled-- again-- by the LTC.

    Thanks.

    -Trollaxor

  4. Random Love still leads the company?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does that fucking bozo "RANDOM LOVE" still lead this company?? What a fucking name that guy has!!

  5. CHECK OUT THE TITLE! -$99/cpu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -$99/cpu

    minus 99 dollars per central processing unit? So, they are actually PAYING 100$/CPU!?? What is this shit??

  6. In other news by Spit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Beer Cures Cancer!

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    POKE 36879,8
  7. All Your Boot Are Belong To Us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In A.D. 2003
    War was beginning.
    Geek: What happen?
    Linux: Some one setup scripts the bomb.
    Geek: What!
    SlashDot: We get signal.
    Geek: What?
    SlashDot: Main screen turn on.
    Geek: It's you!!
    SCO: How are you gentlemen!!
    SCO: All your boots are belong to us.
    SCO: You are on the way to infringmement.
    Geek: What you say!!
    SCO: You have no chance to survive make your time.
    SCO: HA HA HA HA ....
    Geek: Take off every 'init.d' !!
    Geek: You know what you doing.
    Geek: Move 'init.d'.
    Geek: For great justice.

  8. Re:Patents as deterrence against enforcement by spencerogden · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, WWII was a reaction to Hitler's campaign to conquer the world and exterminate the jews. The only reason it could be seen as small incidents getting bigger and bigger is that no one could believe that Hitler was so ambitious and insane.

    --

    Spencer Ogden

  9. Re:My date my be set wrong.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus christ, alright dad.

  10. Mod Abuse! by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Alan Cox picked up an overrated mod which was clearly an emotional reaction to his contreversial post! We need these chickenshit overrated mods in the M2 queue so i can weed the bastards out.

    1. Re:Mod Abuse! by sbuckhopper · · Score: 4, Offtopic

      No offense to Alan Cox because I think that it is an interesting point, but he also picked up a whole lot of mod points because he is Alan Cox.

      It was an interesting point, but he was trying to be prolific and whether you think he is right on wrong, he isn't necessarily more interesting than the thousands of other wanna-be philisophical posts on slashdot that are making some prolific statement so that some day they can say, "see I told you so."

      So you are correct, people shouldn't mod things as overrated as a matter of an emotional reaction, but people shouldn't be lazy with their mod points and think, "Oh Alan Cox, yeah, I'll mod that one up."

      To keep this on subject, yes I think that Alan has an interesting point, but one of the things I've noticed about computer programming types (myself included) is that we tend to over-react to things and bring them to an extreme end. This has been more evident to me as I am a computer programmer that just married a computer programmer. She and I think of the worst possible outcome. We have to, by following the different paths that a problem can follow and choosing the worst possible outcome, you can fix the worst problems first.

      This gives us, as computer programmers and interesting view of the world. In other words we tend to view the world in a pessamistic view. Alan has every right to say what he said, and I think that he makes some good points about how things are. Perhaps he has just predicted the demise of the U.S., but I'm still not going to call him a prophet or a fortune teller or whatever.

      The fact of the matter is that with a machine in a finite set of rules he most likely has an accurate prediction, however man kind is not necessarily a machine. That means that the people of the US may wake up someday and decide that they are stupid for doing what they're doing and correct the situation.

      So like I said, it was an interesting point. The whole point of what I'm saying here is that its just a prediction. He feels that he has history to back himself and maybe he's right. But short of calling him God (which I know some people around here do), he has no definitive way to say that he is 100% correct. An interesting point that may or may not be overrated, may or may not have been modded up to +5 because it was Alan Cox.

      --
      "Everybody knows the moon's made of cheese," Wallace.
  11. Re:sco sucks...Ninnle doesn't! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why run SCO when Ninnle Linux is so much cheaper and convenient? Let's hear it for Ninnle!