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SCO Licenses Now Available
wes33 writes "Now available at the
SCO website, genuine
licenses permitting you to use SCO IP
that is 'necessary for you to run Linux'. And they take VISA.
Looks like they're saying that any code that is
similar to Unix code counts as their
Unix code!?
Actually, the agreement needs analysis.
It looks to me that you're paying for a pig
in a poke, but IANAL. Here's some of the meat:
'"UNIX-based Code'" shall mean any Code or Method that: (i) in its literal or non-literal expression, structure, format, use, functionality or adaptation (ii) is based on, developed in, derived from or is similar to (iii) any Code contained in or Method devised or developed in (iv) UNIX System V or UnixWare(R), or (v) any modification or derivative work based on or licensed under UNIX System V or UnixWare. ...
Provided You pay the applicable license fee and complete the required registration of the COLA, SCO grants You the right to use all, or portions of, the SCO IP only as necessary to use the Operating System on each System for which the appropriate CPUs have been licensed from SCO.'" The linked page says this so-called license applies only to commercial use.
Do they take Monopoly money?
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
:-)
Quick, grab a licence while you still can! They're selling like hotcakes.
I'll buy one, but I'm going to need to borrow their license to print money, first. Photoshop won't let me scan dollar bills anymore...
True story.
Start charging yourself to log in. Congratulations, you're a data processing service bureau. If only you had more than one customer...
I guess if Darl has the same kind of car I have, I guess he wouldn't mind if I stole his car.
Hmm... lets see. Only $149.00 for annual license for one CPU, eh? What a bargain! BTW, I sell annual leases to vacant lots on the moon, but due to court proceedings I can't show you proof that I actually own the moon at moment...
SCO is also sympathetic to the end-user's predicament
in other words, "SCO is also sympathetic to the end-user predicament created by SCO".
I beat my dog every day but I really feel for the poor thing too. Right. Who are they kidding?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
How many SCO executivess does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
...and 1 to fumble and drop it.</pathetic attempt at Funny rating>
Five
1 to claim ownship of the IP
1 to file suit against bulb manufacturers
1 to threaten bulb endusers
1 to send off asking how to use a bulb
This would almost entice be to buy one of the licences (A much better risk/reward ratio then a share of SCOX). However before I would buy I would have to be ensured that if SCOX went broke that McBrib^des personal retirement account is attachable.
Until I can buy them at ThinkGeek I'm not gonna waste my money. :)
But are they edible?
End users who purchase this license are granted the right to use the SCO IP in Linux in binary format only.
/dev/null as SCO's...
Oh okay then, that's fine, I use the stock Linux kernel as-is. I never need any SCO IP in binary format in it.
Unless you count the output of
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Getting slower.....slower......slower....stopping...
Hmmm, you know....this is one of those sites I just really don't mind slashdotting.
-Chris
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
> If it turns out that they lose the suit but get
> the license fees from everyone anyways, this could
> open them up to RICO Act suits (triple damages,
> court costs included).
From where I'm sitting, that looks like a pretty good investment.
Anyone know if I can buy options on SCO licences? I don't want to buy them now, but I'm happy to invest some loot now to ensure I get the option to buy them at some later date. Now, where's my court calendar...?
Ok disregard this post, two seconds after hitting submit I realized that not only am I not a lawyer but also an idiot.
You must be new here
(BAM! +5, Overused Joke)
True story.
with those rates its cheaper to buy copy of windows
I really think this is a clever new business model. Charge people for using another company / group's product.
Hey Windows users, you owe me $99.95 a year for those "Icon" things I invented last year.
IMPORTANT, READ CAREFULLY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS lICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") WHICH HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AND IS INCLUDED WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF LICENSE AUTHENTICITY ("COLA").
Hello, I am the CEO of Coca-Cola, SCO please pay use $699 for use of the word "COLA", thank you.
An OxyMormon.
"SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux"
give me a break
Moderators: How the fuck is this Interesting? More like +5 Incoherent.
Darl has but one innovation
Ill conceived litigation
It's a shame he can't find
Work made for his kind
But who'd pay him for masturbation?
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Looks like we took their shop website down.
That's their shop website.
Did you get that? Their shop website.
All those links are different btw. Really. Just like this shop website. They all need clicking on.
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
That's true, we'd want some security. The code to UNIX System V, the SCO building (a _great_ paintball arena), Darl's car and home, his firstborn child... you know the drill.
With perhaps at least one of his wives thrown in for good measure?
(Legal notice: that was a JOKE).
SpamNet - a spam blocker that really works
Must be running Linux.
It's protection money. You pay SCO now and they promise not to throw a brick through your X Windows. Until they decide to hit you up for some more protection money later.
... can I get a sticker that says, "SCO Inside" ?
or maybe a paper certificate that says, "I paid to license SCO's UNIX IP and all I got was this lousy certificate"
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Build Your Own PVR/HTPC news, reviews, &
You're thinking too small. Depending what counts as 'similar to' Unix, even my toaster might need a licence!
Ceterum censeo subscriptionem esse delendam.
... only outlaws will have compilers.
``... Law enforcement officials refused to say anything other than that the suspect's home computers were seized and later found to contain illegal copies of several versions of gcc. The Chief of Police had no comment on the widespread rumors that printouts of errno.h were found in the suspects home while police executed the search warrent. The President, commenting on the arrest following today's Rose Garden ceremony in which he signed into law a bill extending copyright protection to `forever and a day', said: `America is a safer place today as a result of the actions of these brave police officers. We should be proud.'''
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
IBM could have just demanded that everybody running Windows 3.0 obtain a license from IBM, because it is obviously a derivative of OS/2!!! It was that easy, and those morons at IBM didn't even think of it! What the hell were they thinking, they gave up the OS/2 market to Microsoft, and all they had to do was just sue Microsoft and every one of it's customers!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
... when I say, "The fine people at SCO can line up to take turns kissing my ass."
So...anyone want to take bets on how many people actually buy a license? Probably fewer than the number of people who have bought X-10 minicams from those popup windows.
Do they have an affiliate program? I could definitely see selling licenses in a sort of evidence-eliminator way.
YOU ARE RUNNING UNLICENSED UNIX CODE
Penalties for violating the SCO group's copyrights
are $50,000 per line of infringing code. Our source
scanner shows you are using 1,102,213 lines of
proprietary and confidential SCO source code.
CLICK HERE to purchase a SCO
binary runtime license. Failure to do so will result
in $55,110,650,000 of legal liability!
This offer will not be repeated.
Next up, RMS in custody; charged with battery after finding the SCO marketroid who was spouting GPL blasphemies. SCO martketroid expected to survive after 6 hours of surgery to remove a stamped steel printout of the GPL from the rectum. May have issues sitting down later in life.
Hate me!
Open a company that will indemnify customers vs SCO for half a price of their license.
Their web store, where you have to go to buy the "license" or even find out how much it costs, is heavily slashdotted already. Get ready for Darl to claim, "Interest in the Linux licensing program has been huge! We've had 438 billion inquiries in the last 3 days!"
Sheesh... Apache 1.3.14.. man, thats an old version.
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*This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.14 Server at shop.sco.com Port 80
You should get that backspace key fixed, you know. I've heard that SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 solves that...
I would be willing to make a trade of equal value. They can send me a license and I'll send them my next bowel movement.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
I guess they'll have to accept my condolences.
We don't have to be right in order to tie you up in court, you know. And we have very little to lose right now.
~Darl
we got huge balls!!
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
You know the one who always posts "don't forget to pay your $699 license fee you cock-smoking teabaggers."
He'll be sorry he missed this...
SCO License available here
This is like coke-a-cola suing pepsi drinkers because they are drinking something that tastes like their product.
I just downloaded a license from Kazza
Yep. It's down as of now. Boo-hoo. I wanna buy these licenses. I ran out of toilet paper.
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
Linux is an unauthorized derivitave work of the UNIX operating system. This has been established, and despite this, a lot of people are still running illegal copies that are the property of SCO.
If people want to be using Linux for commercial use, they should purchase the SCO Intellectual Property License and use it legally.
Maybe they took it down because it was running on an unlicensed OS.
The license might get some value, when collectors start looking for them.. :D
All you need to do is post a copy of the page or just list what the page says. There's no need to give them any more excuses for creating FUD...
Buses stop at a bus station
Trains stop at a train station
On my desk there's a workstation....
Be a good communist/terrorist/kiddie fiddler (strike out what doesn't apply) and use GIMP like the rest of us ;)
:)
Kjella
P.S. Actually I don't use GIMP. Paint Shop Pro, baby
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
You just did. They're going to use nmap on you, discover that you're running Linux, get your name and street address from your ISP and then send you a bill in the mail.
Because they need an OS that can stand up to frequent Slashdottings.