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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.
I'm buying the $200 license from SCO next week. I personally don't agree with GNU, in fact I agree with Microsoft that it's viral, however I don't particularly care for Microsoft either. While I like the BSDs (and support them by having a subscription to various BSD CD sets), I also like auto-setup, so I currently use and own a Linux distribution that automatically sets everything up upon install using some proprietary software, making it nice and easy. And just as I rewarded the makers of the Linux distribution I use by my purchasing the distribution and every version that has followed, I also want to reward SCO for any of its hard work that might, and probably did, wind up inside Linux. In the meantime, I get to learn how to work around UNIX-like operating systems which will come in very handy. If it means I spend $200 to reward SCO's hard work and another $60 a year supporting the Linux distribution , so be it.
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