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CD Duplicator Refuses Linux Job, Citing MS Contract
Jonathon writes "Seems a Microsoft imposed restraint of trade agreement and concerns about the SCO suit have prevented a New Zealand company duplicating 500 CDs for our upcoming installfest. The installfest was mentioned on /. just days ago."
As one of the helpers for the installfest, I can say that this is pretty much only going to help our cause. We couldn't ask for better advertising (both the NZ Herald, and Slashdot).
We will be ready, Saturday, with plenty of CDs (we hope).
I use to have a funny sig, but slash cut it off, and I forgot what the punchline was.
It wouldn't be worth the risk of a big MS contract over 500 cd's anyway, to any cd copying company.
"Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
I do not think that the SCO case made them refuse the job. When I read the article, the SCO case gives them an excuse not to do the CD duplication (of a small number, 500, of CDs).
They lose almost nothing, while they are sucking up to M$, possibly gaining much more with the obfuscated licensing. I assume M$ will gladly pay their losses, considering the press coverage this thing will get.
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
Yesterday Software Images declined to do the job, citing intellectual property concerns.
When questioned by the Herald on Friday, Software Images chief executive Allan Morton said his company's wariness of Linux was due to legal action between SCO and Linux over intellectual property issues.
This is anti-competitive behaviour.
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Put Software Images out of business.
remember that SCO has so far only put out threats and not sued
No, they have formally filed suit. What they haven't done is gone into court, which promises to be intensely amusing, and not in a good way for SCO.
What they have threatened is to reveal evidence that would be damaging to IBM and give them control of Linux. Anybody who has actually looked at the details of the situation knows this is just verbal flatulence, with overtones of commercial fraud.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?