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SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users?
An anonymous user noted that SCO will
sell you Unixware if you want to "Legitimize" your usage of Linux at your company. If you buy the license, you will be held blameless for your transgressions against SCO! Pricing has yet to be determined for the special licenses, but I suspect that for any value greater than zero, there are going to be a fair number of angry users.
It has been mirrored already
Hate me!
Sounds reasonable enough to me. How does 25% sound? :)
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
What about a license to indemnify me from trangressions of SCO against Linux..oh wait IBM gives those out for free!
Thanks IBM!
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Not really no. Even in America, you can't sue something that doesn't exist, and the chances of SCO existing after they've lost are very low indeed.
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Pending the outcome of our patent application we are offering carbon-based lifeforms to protect themselves from possible litigation by lisencing out technology for a low upfront fee based on the cell count of the organism.
By chosing to forgo purchasing a lisence, you may be opening yourself to a potential injunctive action down the road.
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If I buy this SCO license it means I own Unix right? Do I own Linux? Netware is thrown in there somewhere too isn't it? What about the Brooklyn bridge?
You can have my Linux when you pry it from my cold dead hand.
Ahh! so finally we can fill in the blank at point 2.
We'll see how it works out.
Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. -C. Coolidge
What part of "GNU is not UNIX" don't you understand, SCO??
;-)
There... I feel better...
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
SCO can kiss my shiny metal ass.
I see that you are new amongst us. Welcome. What you're referring to is what we slashdotters call a "dupe". Please report to the re-education center where you will learn many things including, but not limited to, "profit lists", and jokes about non longer in existance soviet nations.
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I don't know about you but I was beginning to get worried by the lack of SCO stories.
I come to SCOdot.org for "SCO news for nerds" and "SCO stuff that matters", and when I don't get my daily fix I get withdrawl symptoms.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
In other news, Lawrence Ellison of Oracle Corp announced that he intended to launch a hostile buyout offer for SCO... "we don't really want their products, we just want their lawyers."
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
My pending lawsuit against the toothfairy (illicit confiscation and commercial usage of my (copyrighted) DNA) speaks otherwise!
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Not really no. Even in America, you can't sue something that doesn't exist, and the chances of SCO existing after they've lost are very low indeed.
By this do you mean that the chances of SCO the organization remaining solvent are very low, or that the chances of the current SCO leadership not being assassinated by berzerk Linux zealots are very low?
(note for the humor impaired: even as a borderline Linux zealot I would not support acts of violence against any SCO executive... although forcing them to to spend a long time incarcerated for securities fraud while in constant fear of prison rape is kind of a grey area, particularly if the other inmates make apropos jokes like "So you think if I inject you with a tiny bit of my property, that means I own you, right?")
That's right let's all pay SCO the "license fee". Just remember to send them the right amount of Monopoly(tm) bills, because they don't give change.