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SCO Selective About Linux Licensees

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-bills-only dept.

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.

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  1. Good for us in many ways by argmanah · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. Thanks god... by soccerisgod · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. OT: The Slashdot Caldera/SCO topic icon by curtisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  4. Re:This is getting ridiculous by UrgleHoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:GNU/FSF business model leaked by Nykon · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I have to pay $700 for something from FSF does that mean they will have to change their name to just SF ?

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  6. Like ING? by jdray · · Score: 4, Funny
    You're thinking of trademarks. You can't trademark a word unless you plan on defending it (or else some jackass would trademark every word in the english language by now)

    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.

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