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SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2
GreyPoopon writes "Computerworld has an article referring to SCO's announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote: "With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2 market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy. Newsfactor has a better article."
A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
"The company's base edition of Linux Server 4.0 software is licensed to accommodate up to 4 Itanium 2 processors."
OK, so it's good for a to 4-way system before you have to pay more money. But later...
"It supports 4GB of RAM..."
If you're paying out for a 4-way Itanium 2, wouldn't you (typically) want to handle more than 4GB RAM? I imagine there are applications that benefit from a 64-bit CPU but don't use much RAM, but I thought the core market was people using large amounts of data?
Or does it support more RAM and this article's just not great?
Not sure if it'd be worth the bother... SCO's "enhancements" (if you can call them that) generally suck anyway. I'd rather just see a parody distro of SCO than anything attempting to be usefull...
Besides, RedHat, Gentoo, and SuSE are way better (as well as being alot nicer) Although the whole RedHat/Pink Tie thing is a bit annoying...
Hopefully SCO will just die soon.
Rushfan
Yeah, and we would love to pay SCO $999 for Linux, rather than download and run it for $0. Brilliant move, again, SCO!
See this is all part of the strategy... sue IBM for infringing on your IP, so everyone will buy your product so that they won't be liable.
But wait, release a GPL product with your IP embedded in it... doesn't that mean that your IP is now GPL?
Boy am I confused, so SCO is suing IBM for writing software that they are now selling for themselves and benifiting from.
Where can I buy tickets to the court case? I can't wait for this!
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It would be interesting to have GNU or FSF buy a copy and investigate it to see if there are any GPL violations! What might they find?
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SCO's Linux Server Base version is priced at $599. It comes with no technical support or any kind of warranty.
Can someone just make a copy of their Linux software and distribute it for free? Why are people going to buy from SCO directly?
Who CARES if sco wants to charge $999 for linux? IF they can pull that off, MORE POWER TO THEM.
Why is it everytime someone charges money for something everyone freaks out?
The whole point of this whole open source/free software is that, within certain licensing constraints, anyone is FREE TO DO what they want with the software, including make money.
Seriously.. I hate SCO as much as the next guy (if not more), but give it a rest.
How has sco harmed you by offering this package? Oh, they haven't?
Did SCO just release all of their intellectual property under the GPL?
Yea, thats a good idea. Lets limit who can access Linux. Maybe we should have it where you have to get a license to make changes, that way we can keep them out. Or maybe we should just not let them have the source to begin with, so they can't change it. Or maybe, just not let anyone look at it, unless they sign a statement saying they won't release it to anyone else.
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