SCO Has "Made No Decision" On Linux IP Claims

Posted by timothy on Monday January 13, 2003 @06:52AM from the whoah-nellie dept.

Earlier today, a Slashdot post reported the possibility that SCO would attempt to collect royalty payments for intellectual property that SCO (according to that story) claims would make other Linux vendors liable to the tune of nearly $100 per Linux-running CPU. This report on NewsForge reports that SCO has issued a statement "disputing the claims in the story, but confirming that it does have significant asset claims in Unix IP and it is discussing 'possible strategies.'" Awfully ambiguous on SCO's part; I'd feel better about a straight denial.

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Re:Enough by stratjakt · 2003-01-13 07:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It would have been one post if they had bothered to get their facts straight in the first place instead of jumping to the usual 'down with corporate america' conclusions.

The great thing about user submitted news is that you can avoid the journalistic nuisance of fact-checking, and just blame the submitter for any false info.

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Re:SCO the company where... by The+Bungi · 2003-01-13 13:10 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Silly Claims are Obfuscated
and Slashdot Clowns are Overrated.