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SCO Will Pay You Not to Use Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

Verteiron writes: "As if things weren't weird enough already, SCO is now planning to pay companies to migrate away from Linux.. even if it's not toward UNIX. According to the summary over at Groklaw, SCO will provide 'financial incentives and discounts' to users that switch to 'other operating systems that have a stronger IP basis than Linux.' This doubly amusing when considered together with the following statements straight from SCO's 8-K form filed with the SEC: '...plans to expand SCO's intellectual property licensing program to allow for migration alternatives to end users... and continued efforts to protect SCO's UNIX intellectual property rights and SCO's belief that the private investment will enhance SCO's ability to pursue currently pending legal actions... SCO has a history of unprofitability and has only realized revenue from its SCOsource licensing initiative during the last two quarters...'"

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  1. Better than free? by gooberguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do I sign up?

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    1. Re:Better than free? by tambo · · Score: 5, Funny
      Where do I sign up?

      Right below the line that says, "Contract with SCO, a newly-acquired subsidiary of Microsoft, Inc."

      - David Stein

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    2. Re:Better than free? by Brad+Mace · · Score: 5, Funny

      How long do I have to switch for? Can I just keep switching back and forth and rack up some money?

    3. Re:Better than free? by iconian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where do I sign up?

      Go to Soviet Russia and sign -- because in Soviet Russia, SCO will pay YOU!

  2. Underwear gnomes by grasshoppa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, seriously, who thinks the underwear gnomes have a better bussiness plan?

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  3. More like... by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Potential Investor: What's your business plan?

    Guy with goatee: We'll be selling e-products over the e-web. Our e-services will include e-billing, e-shipping, and e-tracking. This will actually reduce our infrastructure and overhead costs to negative numbers, so we won't even need to actually sell anything.

    PI: Here's all my money, and my 18 year old duaghter.

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  4. Re:My head will burst...Daffy by bstadil · · Score: 5, Funny
    Scott Lazar over at GrokLaw had this theroy

    More like that one Daffy Duck short where he's on stage, struggling mightily to get ANY kind of audience reaction.

    He sings, he dances, and the audience just yawns. Finally he uses his one remaining sure-fire act to get a reaction. He swills down a bottle of nitroglycerin and makes himself explode.

    And the crowd goes wild, but meanwhile, nothing but of Daffy remains except for a black stain. That's what this whole thing is:

    Daffy, until it explodes and there's nothing left.

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