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SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems
walterbyrd quotes: "'We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights.' SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003." Update: 08/05 18:24 GMT by M : After October 15, SCO says they'll want $1399. Better buy now!
Well, it's finally happened.. they have smoked so much crack that now they've really started hallucinating...
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution
Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
So this puts Lawrence Livermore National Labs at around $190,751 for a 256CPU system.. of which, they have a few.. heh..
<sarcasm> Let me run out and buy some of that SCO stock!!! </sarcasm>
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Stupidity is the great constant in this universe.
HA!
Go fuck yourselves!
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Haaaahhhaaaaah haha ha ha ha!
*snort*
HAAAAAhaahahahahaaa!
*tear*
Aahhh...
*wipes eyes*
Gosh, that's funny.
No, seriously, how much do they want?
-Waldo Jaquith
Well, luckily for me I am running Kernel v2.6 so I am free from the chains of SCO! What I plan to do instead is start charging everyone the fee of $6.99/license so that you can all run Linux v2.6 (binary only so that you can be in compliance with the GPL!)
I have 2 lines of code which are completely indentical to 2 lines of code in 2.6. I showed it to a few people and they see that what I am saying is true! Just because they are reporters and not programmers is irrelevant.
I would love to have the ability to show these in court but I am too busy with watching the stock tickers.
If you have any questions, feel free to send a check or money order to the P.O. box below (located in a UPS Store).
Remember, complete use of Linux for only $6.99, and no, I will not cover you if SCO sues you.
Considering that right now, Linux can barly give away their product for free, and Microsoft has no trouble selling theirs for hundreds of dollars, I don't think this is good news for Linux business.
And asked for
$666
which would have made everything so clear? I mean it's only $33 difference. I hope when you buy these licenses you get a free T-Shirt with "Sucker!" in large letters on the front.
SCO needs to put up or shut up. If they think they have IP in Linux then show us. Dammit if the code is already in Linux it's already public so point to the code.
John.
I'm sure glad my girlfriend made me stock up on extra KY....
Solomon
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
I'll give you the finger and you can give me my Linux Kernel.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
...by time spent reading all the /. articles about this frivolous suit by SCO
The antidote for misuse of freedom of speech is more freedom of speech.
-- Molly Ivins
bitemedarl.com
darlmcbridesucks.com
I haven't got enough time but I'll be happy to paypal someone $50 to set up a nice site with a messageboard... c'mon.
I own some IP inside the Linux Kernel, but won't disclose what it is either. I am lot more generous then SCO though and will only charge you $500 for a enterprise wide license for Linux. See that wasn't so hard now was it. Please forward your payments to Hangtime.
That's the last straw.
Know how to short a stock?
Dear SCO,
Thank you for the good laugh this afternoon. Our network administrator actually wet his pants, while the rest of us were in such hysterics and tears that work became all but unmanageable. I don't get all the bad press about you guys... I think you've got a great sense of humor.
Sincerely,
LinuxCorp.
oh, so that's the noise 1 million eyeballs make as they roll back...
"My offer to you is this. Nothing."
Funny, my boss doesn't care - must be the ruleset I have to block any website with SCO in it. Just hope he doesn't notice that he can't get quotes for his ciSCO stock anymore. Plus it also blocks slashdot almost every day, so he can't see how anti-productive I am.
Because I commented the infringing lines out, and recompiled.
"Exactly which lines did I comment out?" you ask. That's *my* trade secret.
But I did manage to get all of the infringing lines SCO disclosed."
Geez, Anonymous, I've seen you make some damn silly posts but this one tops 'em all.
The stock market is always right?!? Sure, like when it sent Enron stock over $80/share? What's it worth now?
Right. Now crawl back under your rock.
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
I normally would say that you should make a good case.. but in that ridicoulus case you have the only valid point.
SCO in their best Dr. Evil voice:
"That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!"
Hmm Hmm Ha Ha Ha!!!
In Soviet Russia, the Beowulf cluster imagines you!
Don't Poke the Penguin, SCO
Actually SCO's stock has been steadily going up not to mention their volume has sharply increased.
Look at their chart Shows a definite increase since they started talking trash in March. I've already complained to the SEC regarding their pump and dump tactics. I only wish I owned their stock so I could join a stock holders lawsuit against them.
Oh and btw, I'm offering to any SCO VP, Director and board member a license for a mere $2250 per license. What's it for? You must sign my NDA to find out.
Sorry but the offer only available to SCO employees.
Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
Linux! Free as in $699!
> Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site
I call them "455-4013".
I think "347-5417" might be relevant as well.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see a picture of Darl I get this image of a drunk in a bar swinging a broken bottle accusing everyone that they slept with his girlfriend; which everyone knows he doesn't have.
For breathing. You have been getting away with it for years, but to prevent me suing you, I need you to license the copyrighted technique "breathing". This infringes my IP, though a fully-paid up 'breathing' license will allow you to continue breathing without legal ramifications.
However, due to an ongoing lawsuit I am going to lose, I can't show you exactly what bits of the 'breathing' technique I have rights to, so you should all consider yourselves liable.
Now instead of fighting my way though ftp/cvs mirrors to download the latest distro of linux, I can just download it from a friendly neighborhood warez site! Its a win win situation really :)
(No, five words!)
BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!
(Three, Sir!)
TONGUE MY LOINS!
Dual 2ghz g5, $2999 w/ OS X
A dual ghz machine will cost the linux guys $2800 in the OS alone after October 15th!
*cackles manically* Ahhh revenge for the Mac community!
p.s. -- Yes this is a joke... don't flame me.
$699 for a single CPU system through October 15th
After October 15, SCO says they'll want $1399.
After October 20, SCO says they'll want $49999.
After October 25, SCO says they'll want three billion.
SCO will release October and November prices after they contract a mathematician to construct new super exponential and trans-finite numbering systems.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
And to think I only paid $148.94 for Caldera last week!
C =4 94073
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?ED
"Terminate?"
"Terminate... with extreme prejudice"
Poor Phone Reps, they are prob outsourced and not even internal SCO reps. I mean you would have to live under a rock to actually apply to work there and then after that you have to deal with Linux Zi0ts telling you the very horrific places where you send them their OpenWare Licenses
I was gonna go ahead and get this and the optional Brooklyn Bridge package they're selling.
slashdot, news for crazed liberal socialist zealots
You make investing sound like so much fun.. where can I sign up? I already have the body-armor and a can of that expanding insulation-spray-foam..
Soooo... Whaddoya bench?
So, if buy a license, what are the chances of also getting a written statement promising I'll get full refund if their claims don't hold up in court?
I haven't been following as carefully as I could have, but did SCO already win, or have I been transported to Bizarroworld (again)?
//jbaltz
I am the Lorvax, I speak for the machines.
What does Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) have to do with this?
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
A live penguin.
And several fresh dead fish, right around his crotch region.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
will be glad when SCO is no more. I really, really dislike sharing my initials with such a sleazy company. I long for the day when I can apply my initials to paperwork without the chorus of accompanying snickers, (I even got it from the financing person last time I re-financed my mortgage, ferchrissakes!)
;-]
I'm just glad I had the foresight, (blind luck), to have added the 'Lgo' to the end of my username. I don't think I could stand the slashdot backlash if I hadn't...
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
Actually.. getting a sco license might be a good investment after all. Frame it, and in a couple of months you'll be able to sell it at triple value on ebay. I mean, who wouldn't want the best joke _EVER_ in his posession? :)
This is about the right time for SCO to change their logo to a little chihuahua humping Tux the penguin's leg.
In the unlikely chance that SCO wins before I win the lottery or am struck by lightning, I'll just be redeploying with a BSD instead of SCO.
And if they go after BSD, I'll shift to Plan9 or QNX rather than giving one thin dime to the leeches running SCO.
Should those get nailed, GNU should finally have a decent "Hurd" kernel running by then (15-20 years of lawsuits.)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Linux now costs more than Windows. Cool, perhaps now those shitheads upstairs that run my company will consider switching to it!
The power of Christ compiles you!
The RIAA has copyrighted the sound of a flushing toilet, so now you will have to pay 87% of your $50.00 in royalties to them!
What they heck do they think they own... Boardwalk? That's just crazy.
Why would I pay for linux when I don't even pay for Windows!
RMS: ... It's GNU/Linux ... ... we are going to sue ... ... It's GNU/Hurd, what's Linux ? ...
SCO:
RMS:
"Fuck off. Just... fuck off!"
Damn, just had to say it.
Long live BSD!!!!!!!
"That has to qualify as racketeering. It just has to."
no, the mob wouldn't stoop so low.
So be carefull, Insulting a mob boss has never been, shall we say, a long term endeavor.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I'm halfway tempted to print up some cheques with the goatse.cx picture on them, make out to the personal account of Darl McBride... and see if he cashes the bastards!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
SCO:We here you have been adding code to Linux and have even used it in house. We have a large bill for you that you have to pay or we will sue you.
NSA:That is very interesting we will give you our answer in about an hour. CLICK
Mountain Home AFB: Mountian Home Air Force Base how can I help you?
NSA: This is the NSA we have a terrorist take over in Utah.
Mountian Home AFB: Is it SCO?
NSA: Yes have you already heard?
Mountian Home AFB: Yea they have already called the Army to try and bill them. They even called some of the Oil Companies and that got the White House involved.
NSA: So you have already tasked a strike mission?
Mountian Home AFB: No need. They also sent a bill to Disney! They will never know what hit them. Have a nice day.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Wouldn't the Joe Pesci scene at the end of "Casino" be even more entertaining?
It was a very strong individual indeed that modded this insightful.
Three letters
is based on $1 per in-house lawyer?
MS wants a few hundred for my copy of XP. Doesn't mean they're goign to get it ...
I'm joking. I swear. Really.
For example, there was one particularly interesting post I saw recently which used a variety of statistical methods to estimate the market share of the various BSDs. One of their sources was the latest netcraft report. Another was comparing the number of usenet posts pertaining to each OS, and so on.
The conclusion of the piece was that BSD assuredly is dying, not just according to Kreskin, but according to many others too.
If someone is able to locate a copy of that comment and repost it here, we might just see tarius8105 having to retract his "Geez" statement of a few minutes ago.
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It's their phone bill :-)
Can anyone say Telephone Denial of Service attack?
Get others to help like this:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/cas/14497372.html
I'm sure a lot of people have old Monopoly games laying around unused. I good use of all that paper Monopoly money would be to send the appropriate amount to SCO for their licensing fee.
SCO Sales and product enquiries
1-800-726-8649
How many phone calls will it take to empty SCO's coffers?
I have a huge amount of money sitting in my Nigerian bank account which needs to be taken out of the country. Only $699 in fees for the paperwork.
With my big ass middle finger....SCO can go screw themselves!
For a limited time, for $29.99 I will offer all employees and officers of SCO a perpetual license to kiss my ass. After October, the price rises to $59.99. This license entitles said SCO employee the right to kiss my left butt cheek one time. For the rights to kiss multiple times, or for the use of both butt cheeks, please contact me for additional fees.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Linus: Umm, SCO you failed to recognize my trademark... I will need you to pay a nominal fee to use it in your literature.
SCO: Umm OK how much...
Linus: $1 Billion U.S. Dollars... BWA HAHAHAHAHA