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SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users
Bootsy Collins writes "In a brief article,
Computer Business Review Online quotes Darl McBride as saying that SCO has been busily identifying Linux end users and is
preparing to launch lawsuits against them in order to encourage more such end users to buy licenses from SCO. SCO indicates that they'll start with a company that uses AIX, Dynix and Linux, so as to 'settle several legal arguments in one go.'" Not everyone is going to take the SCO approach sitting down; read on for a story on how (among others) Weta Digital and Australia's Massey University aren't jumping to say Uncle to SCO. Update: 08/20 13:11 GMT by T : Oops! Massey University is in New Zealand, not Australia.
Chris Brewer writes "Massey University's Helix supercomputer would incur a licensing charge of nearly US$100,000 for it's 132 CPU Beowulf cluster, and Weta Digital's render farm could cost somewhere between US$1.15 and US$1.5 million dollars at SCO's 'introductory' pricing, according to this Computerworld article. Massey's parallel computing director says it's unlikely that they'll buy a licence, instead, waiting for what the U.S. Courts decide. Weta's CTO Scott Houston says that they're also not going to buy a licence, but are focusing on making movies in the meantime."
Either SHIT or get off the FUCKING POT!!
Show me the code that is in question!!!!
How can this piece of shit be moderated as insightful? I already read 1.000 SCO slashdot stories containing answers to this stupid question. Hopeless...
..at least to those who are well informed.
So why does nobody take SCO to court and fuck them they way they want it? Doesn't the 6th amendment talk about "speedy trials" or is like that americans don't care about the bill of rights anymore?
Massey University is in New Zealand, not Australia! Where did you learn geography? In the USA?
I thought of a new meaning for FUD last night - Fuck U Darl.
I'm contantly amazed by the sheer number of slashdot'er who jump to conclusions and/or answer posts by babbling about things with little or no relevance.
Lazy fuck.
Welcome to the US. Perhaps you are unaware of our "corporate bill rights" which is believed by courts to trump the individual bill of rights:
1) The right to profit, regardless of market, product or management
2) The right to litigate regardless of merit or lack thereof
3) The right to maintain a "superclass" of individuals who are more important to economy, national security and the general function of society than average citizens. When operating on behalf of a corporation, this superclass is therefore exempted from crimes for which normal citizens can be prosecuted. These include larceny, fraud, and racketeering. (Examples from this superclass include Bill Gates, Darl McBride and Ken Lay.)
Many may not realize that this "corporate bill of rights" exists, or may believe that I am speaking with tongue in cheek. Make no mistake, however; while the individual bill of rights is certainly more concisely encoded (it is, after all, in a single document!), the corporate bill of rights is very clearly written and enforced. It is distributed rather unevenly through various and sundry sections of US code.
To see its effects or to identify its components, one need only look at case law involving corporate parties; in decisions and judgments and the sections of US code to which they pertain you will begin to make out the structure and the body of the coroporate bill of rights, which governs all of our lives and is necessary for the proper function of capitalism...
According to this article on ZDNet News, SCO pointed out some of the allegedly copied code in Linux in a presentation at SCO forum.
I think when you start getting quotes like "The DNA of Linux is coming from Unix.", it starts sounding more and more like a bad soap opera or worse "Voyager".