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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. SCO stock price by chrispycreeme · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is all SCO cares about. If everyone on slashdot were to short as much SCO stock as they can afford, the price would go down. After they lose, it'll go down even more. Just a thought... Not sure if this would be legal or not so Im not actually suggesting anybody DO THIS. I also lost 10 grand in one day shorting stock, so Im not the best person to take investing tips from..

    All I am saying is that $ are votes in this situation.. er most situations. er.. um...

  2. Re:SCO hasn't engaged in litigation, SCO has decla by Jason_says · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO IS DISTRIBUTING it in their products.

  3. Could someone in Utah end this already? by veddermatic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just burn SCO down, find out what law firm those fucks are using, burn that down, beat the shit out of Darl, and tell him he'll get worse if he keeps it up.

    There... enough with this shit already, I'm sick of seeing SCO sotries!!

    If I weren't 2,000 niles away, I'd help, but I have too much work to do, and not enough vacation time. =(

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