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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. One small point by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO?s [intellectual property] if they are running Linux ? for commercial purposes,?"

    Government agencies, commercial? Watch out orphans you're next, Microsoft is gonna getcha.

    1. Re:One small point by blind()side · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You may have meant SCO but what you actually posted may be much closer to truth.

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  2. Re:my first fp by grasshoppa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which, do you suppose, is worse? Posting a FP, or being wrong about it?

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  3. Re:my first fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I vote for the "wootwoot"

  4. Re:Article slashdotted, entire text here: by angeles13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL!!

    this has to be one of the most amusing article summations I've read in quite some time!

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  5. Re:SCO by jpu8086 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Soooooo funny. Slashdot mods also seem to think so.

    This joke seems only funny in an old-school way: a joke when made my a insenstive male clod thinking there are only hetrosexual people in this world. However, ever given a thought that the original poster could have been a gay male? Then your joke wouldn't be that funny, would it? Actually, I am sorry: it would be funny, however, we would just be laughing at you. And even if the original poster is an awesome geeky female, this joke seems inappropriate for slashdot.

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  6. Re:show sco where to stick their license fees by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ann Coulter on Howard Dean: "He's coming on strong. He could win up to 10, 15% of the vote in a national election."

    What's the deal with these idiotic partisans always totally overestimating the number of people who agree with them? Clinton got more then 50% of the vote, and so did Gore. Why would dem support drop so quickly? Ho. Dean appeals to a lot of democrats.

    Ah well, at least it gives an easy gauge on who is and is not a loony.

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  7. Re:show sco where to stick their license fees by ErikZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because he's the best that they've got. They're not going to go "Hell, nobody likes us, let's not run in 2004."

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