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SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu
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.
I think the to last two paragraphs in the article speak volumes to me. SCO is strapped for cach, and Boies' track record.
I'm wondering if this is a Boies inspired scheme with the hopes that Microsoft will back-channel funds into the case. Win or lose, Boies gets to keep the Yacht.
The other issue is on what specific technical grounds can/would one sue? Could they find a judge/jury that would understand the technical merits in a short period of time? And that's the other key. If IBM is the target, then SCO is toasting themselves as Big Blue will just pull a Microsoft and drag this out over 10 years -- as they can afford to -- SCO can't -- unless they get Microsoft money.
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SCO was the stuff so bad they had to buy the name Unix to be able to call their software Unix with a clear conscience.
Linux claims it's like Unix.
SCO owns the name Unix.
Therefore, to SCO, Linux is using SCO's intellectual property.
Which is an impressive feat, given that the previous statement shows SCO has no intellect to have property in the first place...
As heavy bombers deliver heavy ordinance, I will be assured that US heavy industry is alive and well, though it may be encumbered by unions, silly laws and cartel ownership.
Farmers, like eveyone else, demand to make a living for what they do. When farming, or anything else does not pay, people move on to what does pay. You would be hard pressed to say that the US, which exports more food than anyone else in the world, and has an obesity problem, has any kind of problem making food.
This, however takes the cake:
The odd billion chinese people are slightly more significant. ... Their staff are cheaper, their lawyers don't charge outrageous fees and they have lots of young and bright staff encouraged to think rather than to conform for fear of liability and lawsuits for being original.
Whatever encumberences people in the US work under are nothing compared to conditions in China, where you could be sent to jail for reading this post. This does not make things as they should be here but chicken little claims and praise of others are not the way to fix things. China, without huge infusions of western cash, would fall to ruin just as the Soviet Union did. Regiems like that are the worst corporate nighmare you ever had. If you think it's hard to get things done in a large company here just imagine living there. Here are some other stuff you might want to consider about the "competition"
Technical innovation can occur anywhere, but the basis for consistent performance and general prosperity is freedom. The US still has plenty of that.
Something to think about as you watch the US drop your tax money out of bombers over the desert
I'm a little more worried about the people on both ends of that drop than I am about money.
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