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SCO: Fortune 500 Company Buys License, IBM Retort
An anonymous reader writes "SCO announced today that an undisclosed Fortune 500 company purchased Linux licenses for each of their servers running in their business. SCO: 'This Fortune 500 company recognizes the importance of paying for SCO's intellectual property that is found in Linux and can now run Linux in their environment under a legitimate license from SCO. We anticipate this being the first of many licensees that will properly compensate SCO for our intellectual property.'" kanly writes "The full text of IBM's countersuit against SCO is now online at LWN." M : Our own Roblimo has a pretty good take on it. Keep in mind that SCO could sell a blanket license for $1, for the publicity value.
SUCKERS. I really want to put some sort of useful comment in this post but that word just keeps repeating.
P.T. Barnum called. He wants his cliche back.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
The article is here...
-- search the web
We can't name the company because they don't exi-- er, because of legal reasons.
The SCO(R) Group (SCO) today announced the signing of its first Intellectual Property Compliance License for SCO UNIX Rights.
How could Microsoft NOT be forced into buying these for its "new" Linux Lab (mentioned here several times in the past week.)?
"We've had more than 300 companies in the first four business days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO's Intellectual Property License for Linux," said Chris Sontag
Yeah, and 299 of them were trolls from pissed off slashdotters.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
Anti SCO T-Shirt $1 donated to OSI Fund on each shirt.
News at 11
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
did the deed to the brooklyn bridge come with the license as well?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
mmm... yeah... You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out...
From the article:
``About SCO
The SCO Group (SCOX - news) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday.''
Hahahaahahahahahahahahahah
SCO Exec's = Railians (HTF do you spell that name?)
Think about all the paralells to the claim of cloning a human that was done... They never did show us the kid, and have disappeared off the face of the earth as far as the global conciousness is concerned...
I suddenly have an idea for a parody site that I just don't have time to do, www.SCOlians.org! I now place this idea under a simple license, use of that domain or a similar domain is allowed by anyone as long as they actually use the site to mock SCO...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
It's SCO!
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
in other news....
Ken Lay remarked, "amateur."
SLASHDOT (to SCO)
When have you ever sold a license?
SCO
I've sold, lotsa times!
SLASHDOT
Name one!
SCO
The company lives in Canada, met it at
Niagara Falls. You wouldn't know
it.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
people should be fair to sco.
this page gives a phone number to call to discuss the linux license. people should ring up 1-800 726-8649 and hear sco out. and *please* remember to write down the details on all linux systems you have. it would be terribly annoying if you forgot a detail like the version of linux or the details for another machine and had to call back.
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So I was skimming along when all of a sudden, they got all preachy on me:
Huh?? Pray for relief?? Well, okay. Here it goes:
IBM is my shepherd; I shall not want.
IBM maketh me to lie down in green tinted monitors: IBM leadeth me beside the still line printers.
IBM restoreth my deleted files: IBM leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for the heck of it.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of SCO, I will fear no eavil: for IBM art with me; their rod and their staff and their lawyers, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a legal brief before me in the presence of mine enemies: though anointest my code with gdb; my buffer does not runneth over.
Surely goodess and mercy shall follow me all the days I code: and I will dwell in the house of Stallman forever.
An undisclosed company buys a lincence to undisclosed IP for an undisclosed sum of money...
Hey guys, I have an undisclosed bridge in an undisclosed city I'd be happy to sell you! You know, you want to make sure you secure your water-crossing rights!
Blockwars: a realtime multiplayer game. Go play!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
We're sorry. We meant to say a Fortune *500,000,000* company. It was actually a lemonade stand, and they were using old RedHat disks as coasters. We traded them a license for 2 cups of lemonade.
--Darl
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Gosh, if only the Internet provided some way of looking things up....
My favorite quote from the article is that after selling just one license, Sontag of SCOsource states that "we are very pleased with the licensing interest to date". Apparently, they didn't expect anyone to fall for it.
However I do understand why the buyer wants to be anonymous. I would rather be caught buying penis enlargement pills from spammers than SCO licenses. Both prove that you are sucker, but at least with the pills you aren't the only one.
-Fyodor
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You forgot to mention that it was for an undisclosed price.
The SCO group has decided to shoot 1% of all U.S. babies.
So... SCO has been making noise about this for weeks and as of today one single Fortune 500 company has bought a license? And SCO thinks this is positive news that a whopping 0.2% of the major industrial powers of the world drank their Kool Aid? Funny, when I saw this it immediately leaped to mind that despite the threats of legal action, making major parts of IT departments effectively illegal, etc., 499 of 500 (i.e. 99.8%) bigtime companies decided that SCO was full of crap. Yeah, that's something I would tout to the media...
I have over the past few days spoken to all of the Fortune 500 companies and 499 of them told me they would not, not now nor ever buy a license from SCO. Of course I can't reveal the name of the last company since SCO would sue me for telling that the last company only laughed at me when I asked them the question!
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
SCO announces a record profit for the year!
... that's like buying the enlargment pills you learned about in a spam mail. They'll quickly figure out that money went into /dev/null.
But it's all maybe part of a bigger scheme. (Conspiracy theorists wanted here!)
--- Sigmentation Fault - Comments Dumped
Actually, I think it's probably the Canopy Group that bought it. Or maybe one of their companies.
Are any of the Canopy Group companies in the Fortune 500?
Darl: Ralph, will you buy one of our licenses?
Ralph Yarro: Why? I don't run any your crappy operating systems.
Darl: No, Ralph, the Linux IP license.
Ralph: I don't run that either. We're all MS here.
Darl: For the suit, Ralph. Remember: The Suit?
I need to tell other companies that someone has bought a license.
Ralph: Oh. Oh, yeah. Right. OK, put me down for one. How much is it?
Darl: $699
Ralph: Corporate Discount?
Darl: OK. 50%.
Ralph: Done. Now get out of here. One of my wives is on the phone.
SCOX was tanking hard today. Down over 24%. Then out of blue this PR was issued, and sco partially recovered to close down about 14%.
Still, miraculous timing.
We had Enron lined up too, because they had the sort of ethics and businness acumen we can really relate to.
--Darl
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
1) It can be used to mean too many things: Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks, mp3s, the transmissions from planet grrr that make it through you tinfoil hat...all of gets classified as "Intellectual Property"
2) the acronym is already taken. IP means "Internet Protocol". Always has. Always will.
From here on out, I decree it to be open season on any pointy-haired, legalese-spouting phucknugget who says "IP" and means "Intellectual Property".
You have the Lord's official permission to beat the living snot out anyone who says "IP" and doesn't predece it with "TCP".
Okay, Okay...we admit it...it was a savings and loan company called First Intercontintental Elbonian (ticker symbol FIE!); And sure, they're not reeaaallly a Fortune 500 Company, but their CEO once served a cheese Danish to Lee Iacoca, and we think that should count for something.
And sure, they didn't know what they were signing when we handed them the license. I suspect they think we're going to deliver 6,990 forged passports or somesuch...I don't recall.
But there is a funny side. Y'see, they're an MS shop. Running DOS 3.0, I think. But hey, their money is still green, and we happily accept it.
Signed, Love and Kisses
(To everybody but those smelly Linux Hippies)
Darl McBride, CEO SCO YHBT HAND
For sale at the low, low price of $50.00 you can now own a share of the company that starred in the greatest economic debacle since the Enron scandal -- SCO. I have one (1) share that I acquired simply to give me a legal base if I wanted to sue.
All owners of SCO (I know the stock is 'SCOX') need to gather and sue because of corporate mismanagement due to illegal manipulation of stock price. Or something. IANAL.
Seriously, if someone would like to buy one share of this stock as a reminder before it is delisted, I am open to sale.
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