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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."
I just paid them. It is only $700 and I don't have to worry about getting sued or breaking the law. Plus, if they really did write the linux kernel, they deserve some compensation for it I think.
Does this not sound retarded to anyone else?
Now excuse my ignorance, but, how hard would it be for someone to sit down with the Linux Kernel code, rip out the existing SMP code and code it from scratch? Preferably someone who's never looked at the current Kernel SMP code so as to not be influenced by it.
Or would it be easier for me to just ask for the RIAA to accept the MP3 format and work with it online?
Zro . two
"I come from Canada...they say I'm slow....eh?"
"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*
Remember kids, Don't feed the Trolls!
That's because there is no such a thing as US Laws or US Government. The US laws are controlled and made up on the fly by the corpoations, the one true governing body.
Israel should just round up those Palestinian sand-niggers squatting on Israeli land and put them into vast Soviet-style slave camps. If it worked for Stalin, it can work for them!
No it doesn't.
Assholes.com came close, though.
Other close contestants were titled "licking dirty assholes" and "stretched assholes to the limits".
Glad to be of service.
BOO! TERRO
I'm constantly amazed at the number of idiots who don't properly read the thread they're in and then make themselves look stupid by posting a complaint in reply to a post that they don't understand.
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.
If something is not done slashdot itself will be sued by SCO.
Stop complaining and put your money where your mouth is.
I am tired of this SCO crap. When are you people going to stop whining and do something about it. If you have contributed to the Linux kernel, sue SCO for damaging your product and under the terms of their claims they owe you for licensing. If you have been given an invoice from SCO, sue them and report them for extortion. If you have bought a license, sue them for false advertising. Whining about it on slash dot will accomplish absolutely 0, bubkiss, dittly. This is the only way to strike back at a company that uses litigation as a business model. Use litigation to counter them. There is not other way to stop SCO. There were allot of people that said fascism, Stalin and Hitler were bad people, but nobody actually did anything about it (until it was too late) so my fellow slashdotters, before you post one more reply to an SCO article, why don't you put you money where your mouth is file suit against SCO, and then comment about that.
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).
MS will have issued another version of their OS and it will have bugs ...