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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."
"The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram," she said in a phone interview from her home in Massachusetts. "Because if you can do it like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" -- Salon
DiDio, you are the BEST analyst 3vah!
See also PJ's Groklaw for another set of DiDio quotes, which are hilarious when we know what code she was probably shown before uttering them. Non-programmers judging code.. *rotfl*
This will be bigger than the rumble in the jungle.
This will be better than the thrilla in manilla.
I will shake your world up SCO. I will beat you worse than tyson beat holyfield's ear. I will beat you worse than the LAPD beat rodney king.
I AM THE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIME.
Well, (I'm trying not to be too insensitive), the SCO fiasco is as close as you can get to terrorism in the IT world without actually killing somebody. It's a few angry religious nuts doing insane things to cause fear in an vein attempt to destroy an idea which the terrorists fear. Everyone else is shaping languages to suit them (piracy, Digital Rights Management, Trusted Computing, Shared Source, GNU/Linux, doublethink, etc.), we may as well join them and call it what it is.
Litigious bastards
Wait... so we're going to criticize a false claim of copyright violation by using a real copyright violation?
You know what would be really great? An option in my preferences for SCO articles. I have an option to not hear about many other different article types, but I don't see SCO articles in there. If this SCO stuff is going to be appearing for the forseeable future they should include an option for those of us who could care less to opt out of seeing these SCO articles (personally I could care less, I feel exactly the same as Linus about this).