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SCO Targets US Government, TiVo

Posted by simoniker on from the latest-salvo-in-demented-cabaret dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to SCO, if you have a TiVo set-top box, or those models of Sharp Zaurus which use Linux, someone now owes them $32, since the company wants money 'for each embedded system using Linux.' SCO also says government agencies must pay up to $699 for each copy of Linux that they use."

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  1. Re:All SCO jokes have been spent. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Don't worry, now that the US gov's on our side

    Uhm, FYI: the US Government is _never_ on your side, no matter what side you're on.

  2. Smells like RICO by sn00ker · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Now, I'm not any kind of expert on US law (other than knowing that the DMCA blows chunks pretty hard), but this latest claim by SCO sounds a lot like racketeering. Since they're throwing claims around all over the place it'd be a federal case, too.
    As Singh said in the article, it's extortion based on fraud and that sounds mighty like a corrupt, racketeering effort to me. I think that federal charges would take the wind out of McBribe's sails.

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  3. Re:show sco where to stick their license fees by I4ko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've just told for education that i'm gonna pay in nickels which i'm gonna put one by one it their ass.

  4. Re:SCO can suck my left nut by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes! I agree, lawyers should offer their services for free. Except then maybe nobody would want to argue cases anymore. And then none of the victims would get compensated, and none of the perpetrators punished. Yeah, that sounds like a better system to me too. Idiot.