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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.
I don't know but it looks like the Sharp Zaurus is about to become REALLY expensive!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
And the farce continues.
It looks like SCO is really trying to use FUD against the big guys. "If we scare them, they'll pay, right?". They know if they can get the big companies to pay, they've made their $. If they don't, then it's "big fish" to fry (read: sue). Suing users would be too much money for too little gain.
I really wonder who their PR department is. They keep saying one thing, then say the exact opposite. Their heads are so far up their asses, they cannot talk a consistent story. They should be fired.
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
It's actually 699 per processor....which over an entire fortune 1000 company running linux, is probably an astonomical amount.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.