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SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under
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.
SCO suck. I am a Linux user. I know lots of Linux users. But I'll sooner go without a computer than pay them for a license to Linux, and I would rather avoid EvilOS (TM). I've nothing against paying for software, just SCO can't claim ownership of EveryInvention (TM), and the serious competition on PC isn't that great. I know about BSDs and other opensource operating systems, but I see SCO going after them eventually as well. This is a dodgy business practice. It looks to me like SCO has grabbed a few hundred lines of code from Linux, backported them in to their ShittyOS and is now claiming ownership of everything under the sun, including my DNA, because of it. The future of opensource is really at stake here if SCO win a lawsuit anywhere in the world about this. What's to stop other litigous bastards grabbing some opensource code and sticking it into a version of their software then claiming that they wrote all the code? If SCO win there will be a legal precident for them to do it too. Something similar happened to the Mplayer guys a while back, but I forget the exact details. Beware people, the future is uncertain. If you don't make a point of fighting (and winning) this SCO thing we're going to see more of it happening.
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SCO won't tell us where the infringing code is, because they are afraid that we will remove it and remove all chance for them to make money!!!!