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SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users

Posted by timothy on from the bullying-tactics-101 dept.

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."

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  1. Koan by waitigetit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus once asked SCO: "Does Linux have the SCO-nature?"
    SCO answered: "There is no Linux, only SCO."

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    I could care less, but not without a lobotomy
  2. Thats Better... by LordYUK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets see... morning coffee... morning donut... morning SCO story...

    the day can start now!

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  3. OMG by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    they'll start with a company that uses AIX, Dynix and Linux

    omg! they'll sue IBM again!

  4. Lets play IP-Infringment Mad-Libs! by dq5+studios · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets play IP-Infringment Mad-Libs!

    "In a brief article, {Industry} Business Review Online quotes {Figurehead} as saying that {Company} has been busily identifying {Debated IP} end users and is preparing to launch lawsuits against them in order to encourage more such end users to buy licenses from {Company}. {Company} indicates that they'll start with a company that uses {Example IP 1}, {Example IP 2} and {Example 3}, so as to 'settle several legal arguments in one go.'"

  5. Re:Lawsuits... by MImeKillEr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are the people that received the complaints all sleeping or is SCO protected from legal investigation?

    I'm starting to believe that the group getting the complaints (Securities & Exchange Comission) may be genetic replicas of the morons who grant the patents over at the USPTO.

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  6. Linus says... by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    The title on the article over at Newsforge is " Linus on McBride's latest claim", but the only quote in it from Linus is short and sweet:
    When asked for a comment this morning, Linus Torvalds had this to say about McBride's claim of a million lines of SCO code in Linux: "He's lying."
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    My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.