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SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the everyone-else-is-scoing-it-why-can't-we dept.

akorvemaker writes "OSNews is reporting about an article at InfoWorld that SCO's new Linux licensing program 'will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.'" This seems to be either the best business decision ever, or a nail in their coffin. One would think they'd wait before charging a license fee over what some would call shaky ground,

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  1. IBM Never been evil - ha! by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unless you consider computerising the Third Reich as not particularly evil.

    You didn't think millions of Jews across Europe were catalogued by pencil and paper did you?

    It was the IBM Hollerith Punch Card systems leased to the Nazis and billions of punch cards sold to them from 1933 to the end of the war.

    There was one at just about every death camp, the Allies were kind enough to even give them back once the camps were liberated.

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter