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SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under

Posted by timothy on from the whatcha-eatin'-under-there dept.

WildCode writes "SCO is now targeting Aussies in its continuing Linux licence saga. According to the story, one Aussie organization has already signed up for the licence. The ACCC has no comment at this time but this certainly puts a twist on things as the ACCC were waiting for the results of the lawsuits in the U.S. before making any judgement. Personally I think its time for the ACCC to say to SCO 'wait for the U.S outcomes before taking action here.'" An anonymous reader points to another story at internetnews.com.

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  1. How much by VMaN · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How much money CAN they trying to salvage from the biggest backfire in recent history? ... ONE company per continent doesn't seem to me like it will pay the legal fees, and not to mention the destroyed reputation...

  2. Sco still dropping by akaiONE · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know about the rest of you, but to me this seems to be one of the late very desperate moves by the SCO to prove they have a business here.

    Lets just take a look at their current stock-price? This url [nasdaq.com] trully shows who's dropping here. It's for sure that SCO now seem desperate, and for a reason. Their business is dying, and so are their case.

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    "-Who said sit down?!"
    -- S. Ballmer @ MSDC 2003.

  3. Return on Investment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While the lawsuits might not have any result in the long run, and will probably be turned down by the courts (depending-- I know very little about the facts of the case, and have no real pressing reason to find out more), it seems like in the short run, the could be very useful... for Microsoft.

    I mean, obviously Microsoft threw in some funding to this group to help sponsor the lawsuits. And they don't nessecarly have to succeed in order to have effect. Defending oneself from lawsuits is expensive and undesirable. Any moderatly to low executives now have more to worry about in any thoughts of migrating to Linux. This seems like it will help Microsoft in the short run.

    It seems like the time bidding might be all they need. If they can prevent massive pop-culture defections from Windows until the migration to 64 bit, they would most likely continue the prevelance of windows for a long time to come.

    How effective do you think this tatic will be for them.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Why wait for the US? Germany didn't by NKJensen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why wait for a broken system to produce an answer?

    Germany told SCO to shut up or bring in some evidence. The aussies should do the same.

    It's still a mystery to me how the US legal systems works (or doesn't work)

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    -- From Denmark