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SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK

Christopher writes "SCO has actually sold its first Linux licenses in the UK. These licenses permit the use of SCO's intellectual property that is apparently present in Linux distributions, and in binary form only. To my understanding SCO hasn't won yet and these licenses don't grant you any freedoms you didn't already have, but SCO's vice president Chris Sontag says that 20 to 30 organisations worldwide have purchased these licenses."

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  1. Re:If IBM wins... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I will refer you to this guy's post.

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  2. Re:Nothing new by Nimey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the American legal system is still this broken when we begin colonizing the moon, those land titles may not be so worthless.

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  3. Re:blame the British tendency for queueing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For example, people from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands are British too.

    So are people from the Falkland Islands and people from Gibraltar, at least in general. Or people from all over who happened to have the right parents (or maybe grand parents is enough? I forget).

    British is a nationality. It doesn't mean 'people from the UK'.

  4. Re:In the immortal words of PT Barnum.... by curtoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sooooo... That would imply 25% suckers.

    Anyone care to estimate the true probability of suckers to non-suckers (stagnant air and winded persons)?

  5. Re:In the immortal words of PT Barnum.... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, the saddest thing is that I considered that when I was posting.

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  6. Re:Not so stellar with the sales there... by CharlesF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate to point this out, but your sig was cu

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  7. Re:In the immortal words of PT Barnum.... by slashname3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Intelligence in the univers is a constant. The population is growing. You do the math. If you still can.

  8. Re:blame the British tendency for queueing by Gromius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always though British was the term for people from Great Britain which is England, Scotland and Wales only. Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain (as emphasised by the full name of whole country The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)