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SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems

Posted by michael on from the bargain-basement-pricing dept.

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!

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  1. Re:SCO needs to die in a fire by B3ryllium · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Somebody took my stapler.

  2. Two words to SCO by alfredo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FUCK YOU

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  3. FTC should investigate this... by Chordonblue · · Score: 0, Redundant

    These bastards are now just clearly running up their stock. What a bunch of crapola. This is a last ditch effort to sell high.

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  4. This could be fun by nsideops · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "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 at http://www.sco.com/scosource ."
    I wonder how long it would take to slashdot a phone number :)

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  5. Capitalism - the other face of communism. by sydb · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The thing is, in a free market, the market would create laws, copyrights and other forms of IP, because it would be in the interests of those holding power at any moment in time.

    This is the problem with libertarianism and anarchism. People are self organising. Destroy the current forms of organisation, and new forms will be created; those forms will suit whoever has the power to create them. I'd wager the new forms would not be so different from those forms we have now.

    In other words, centraly controlled power and economics are historically inevitible. Marx was right. These social systems we have with centralised power are genetically programmed into the human species.

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  6. Re:What is capitalism? by pantherace · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't know. :)