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SCO Run-Time Licenses: Get 'em While They're Hot!
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?"
Actually, GNU/Debian is suspending Hurd development for a while, owing to expanding license concerns tied to the SCO case. This is already in the slashdot submission queue.
That reminds me of Jeb Bush preparing to declare marshall law on Sep 7th, 2001. We're coming up fast on the anniversary of that day all those people died in vein. Forgot what it was called tho.
ranting about _create_ and _innovate_ in reference to Linux makes you look a bit silly. After all, everything involved in Linux development is about emulation and immitation. Consider: the kernel and basic tools are directly lifted from UNIX. Gnome and KDE are directly lifted from the windows '95 GUI. The office apps available with your distro are almost feature-for-feature lifted from MS Office.
Where's the innovation in Linux?
The answer is not that shocking. The innovative thing about projects like linux is the license. That license (the GPL) was developed nearly 20 years ago, and save for minor refinements, hasn't really changed much since.
So, in short, if the OSS/FSS communities would just "demonstrate their ability to _CREATE_ and _INNOVATE_ instead of count coup on the _CREATIONS_ and _INNOVATIONS_ of others, SCO would be a healthy example of [Open Source] Development", instead of being sued for cheesing the property of others and being taken to task for it.