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Open Source Group Victoria v. SCO, Part II

Posted by timothy on from the fightin'-words dept.

Following up on last July's complaint, Elektroschock writes that "The Open Source Group Victoria (OSV) made a second complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). In a similar case in Germany SCO Group received an injunction from the court, so SCO never sold Linux licenses in Germany (tarent vs. SCO, district court Munich). Competition police seems to be a strong weapon against SCO-like action."

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  1. Re:Injunction? by Clockwurk · · Score: 5, Troll

    The company I work for bought SCO liscenses for our GNU/Linux workstations and servers. We didn't want to have any legal hassles irregardless of how the SCO suits turn out. They weren't that expensive compared to our other software liscenses and the peace of mind was well worth the cost (kinda like buying something from apple, you know there won't be any hassles, even if the initial cost is slightly higher).

    We didn't pay a liscense fee when we switched over to GNU/Linux, but even with the $699 fee, GNU/Linux was still the best deal for our company.