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SCO Selective About Linux Licensees
cdunworth writes "According to the IDG news wire, SCO is now telling the vast hoardes of willing new Linux licensees that, unless you are a Fortune 1000 company, you can't buy a Linux license. Not yet. Why the delay? In return for your $699 payment, they don't have to send you anything more than a piece of paper." At least home users of Linux can take solace in knowing that they don't have to pay up yet. It doesn't always pay to have deep pockets.
So, they're selective about linux licenses, but they'll sue anyone. Yeah.
Does this mean I'll have to pay for a full price licences for my Tivo, Router and network enabled coffee maker instead? I'm worried this is the case because I'll be unable to purchase the licences before November the first like I was going to.
Whatever will I do?
SO by the time I will be able to pay for a license the rate will go up...
Guess I should use windows... That way I'll just be using pirated software and not illegal software...
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Don't forget to pay your $699 SCO licensing fee you co....er...I guess you can't, never mind. ;)
How special would I feel if I was a manager of a large company, and SCO tells me that despite that fact that the license process was still in formation, my company needs to choke up some money because we're rather large?
It sounds like SCO is having scalability trouble with more than their software.
Comment Disclaimer: Not that I think they should collect from anyone, by the way (-:
In other words, SCO is saying, "The only people we are going to try and charge for Linux right now are the people with enough money to sue us into oblivion."
I am OK with this.
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At least home users of Linux can take solace in knowing that they don't have to pay up yet.
Phew, what a relief. That was really keeping me awake at night.
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
I would like to have it changed to an overhead image of the caldera logo spiraling mid-flush in a dirty toilet. Thats where they are headed
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
Yeah, their backup plan is to sell land rights like this to other planets. Except that the moon is already taken, so SCO is going to sell plots on Uranus.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
What the Hell is that?
Penguins aren't farm animals.
If I have to pay $700 for something from FSF does that mean they will have to change their name to just SF ?
"It's better to be a pirate then join the Navy"
Kind of like the financial company ING? If Darl McBride were head of ING, he'd be suing half the world's English speakers every time they used a verb with his company's name at the end.
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
Never trust a man who tries to stick a flag in Uranus.
Are you saying the meat for my penguinburger was hunted down and slaughterd?!? Poor poor penguins wrought from their families in Antarctica to make my belly full. Oh tasty penguin, can you ever forgive me?
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin