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SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses
MSBob writes "Seems that SCO is seriously hinting that their next victim is going to be Google. SCO said that they held what SCO described as "low level talks" with Google executives with regards to licensing SCO's alleged intellectual property within the Linux kernel. The full article is on Forbes.com." The Reuters story is on Yahoo!, too.
Greenmail prior to an IPO?
some one is a m$ whore if google pays sco i will quit googling thank you captain obvious!
Lowest common denominator business practices courtesy of Utah.
Excuse me, but the whole spirit behind the GPL was you owe nothing for using GPL licensed programs.
Google owes the community zilch.
If you want corporations to be obliged to be socially accountable while using your programs, then change the license to say so. Then quickly find out that no one wants that kind of obligation.
Lowest common denominator business practices courtesy of Utah.
No, I'd have to agree. Most of the folks from Utah that I've met (granted, mostly LDSers in software) have been self-rightous zealots who can't take a joke.
Just switch to a REAL free OS, FreeBSD, it was created specificly to get around any and all posible licensing issues with the original Unix brand...
And since it is capable of translating linux kernel calls,shouldn't take very long to rehost the whole site (maybe a few weeks?)
Well... not the french server. The french server talks went like this:
SCO: You owe us money for linux licenses.
Google: Fuck off.
French Government: WE SURRENDER! RUN FOR THE HILLS!