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SCO Run-Time Licenses: Get 'em While They're Hot!

Posted by timothy on from the while-company-is-still-around-too dept.

ddtstudio writes "Well, if you've been holding off your payments to SCO for your Linux usage, eWeek reports that you need wait no longer. SCO has now made available for your IP pleasure their run-time licenses -- that is, if you can get one. Seems there are some problems getting even sales people at SCO to answer the phone. Is this any way to run a business?"

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  1. Re:I run Windows. by invalid_address · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    pfft. you said windows.
    when will this become a useless story of another canopy pump and dump scheme. screw every last one of these aholes. but since they pay for their politicians, they have carte blanche to be litigious aholes.
    it's amazing what the american public will put wi... oh that's right, these are the same people that drink bud, watch nascar and the latest 'reality' tv show. we're all fucked by factoring in the lowest common denominator. arnold 'hi, i'm a big corporate interest puppet' schwarzenegger for governor!

    rant off. rawr.

  2. Re:I run Windows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Considering the "Mickey Mouse" solutions offered by Microsoft (Office, Internet Explorer, Windows) control a good 90% of the market, they absolutely blow away the hack jobs offered by OSS zealots (GIMP, Mozilla, among others)

  3. Re:SCO Announces Second Fortune 500 Client by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Darl McBride can suck the cheese out from under the foreskin of my hairy cock.

  4. I think this was bound to happen. by rikrebel · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I have always thought this type of problem was bound to happen. The Linux development process has become large and always has been organic.

    I think our focus should not be on what SCO is up to, they are on their last legs anyways. We just end up increasing the hype and prolonging their slow and just death as a viable business.

    Instead we should be focusing on a method to prevent additional occurences of others IP ending up in Linux or other OSS projects.