Does everyone who uses Linux need a SCO UNIX IP License for Linux?
End users running Linux 2.4 or later versions for commercial purposes need a SCO IP license.
Since the license is needed only by commercial users of a Linux 2.4 kernel and later version, does that imply that non-commercial users and earlier versions of the Linux kernels are non-infringing?
Major portions of UNIX(R) System V and derivative works began appearing in version 2.4 of the kernel. Prior versions of the kernel are largely unaffected. All distributions of Linux 2.4 and later versions of the kernel contain major infringments, regardless of whether Linux is being used in a commercial or non-commercial environment. At this time, SCO is focusing on the commercial uses only.
What is the cost of the License?
The promotional fee for the client (desktop) license is $199.
The promotional fees for server licenses are:
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution
Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
The promotional license fee for embedded devices is $32 per device.
{/snippit from sco licensing page}
My opinion:
WHAT THE FUCK ?
Did bill get into bed with sco now?
hey SCO!! --> FUCK OFF! you will get your money out of me when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers..
well... with the recent events on the east coast, this worm may be slighly delayed some..
I guess sysadmins could always put this 'whopper' ( 800k ish ) patch on a floppy disk and patch these systems before they are all brought back online..
Just start talking the level 1 techs ear off with lots of technical info and most of them will not even understand what you are talking about and usually put you thru to a "higher level" tech.
may not work for everyone, but i sure do get good use out of it!
hmm... so m$ makes a big phat database with all the newsgroups...
wonder how long it will take until the *AA will *aquire* access to that database and sticking their greedy little hands into usenet and make a huge mess out of things.
Slashdot Mirror
or you could call the FTC too..
I Just called too..
the guy i talked to was very nice and the whole call took less than 5 min.
or have everyone buy up as much SCO stock as possible and then sell it all off at once and drive the price stright to hell..
HOLY BAT SHIT BATMAN!!!
SCO wants $700 for a "1 CPU" license !!
{snippit from sco licensing page}
Does everyone who uses Linux need a SCO UNIX IP License for Linux?
End users running Linux 2.4 or later versions for commercial purposes need a SCO IP license.
Since the license is needed only by commercial users of a Linux 2.4 kernel and later version, does that imply that non-commercial users and earlier versions of the Linux kernels are non-infringing?
Major portions of UNIX(R) System V and derivative works began appearing in version 2.4 of the kernel. Prior versions of the kernel are largely unaffected. All distributions of Linux 2.4 and later versions of the kernel contain major infringments, regardless of whether Linux is being used in a commercial or non-commercial environment. At this time, SCO is focusing on the commercial uses only.
What is the cost of the License?
The promotional fee for the client (desktop) license is $199.
The promotional fees for server licenses are:
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
The promotional license fee for embedded devices is $32 per device.
{/snippit from sco licensing page}
My opinion:
WHAT THE FUCK ?
Did bill get into bed with sco now?
hey SCO!! --> FUCK OFF! you will get your money out of me when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers..
i wonder what else would happen with the "automatic update"...
**AA ?
The All new and improved Windows Server 2003 honeypot/virus server !
i can see it now..
some virus company worker at their desk when...
"... your system will reboot in 60 sec.. "
well... with the recent events on the east coast, this worm may be slighly delayed some..
I guess sysadmins could always put this 'whopper' ( 800k ish ) patch on a floppy disk and patch these systems before they are all brought back online..
fuck yeah... !
Let's have a new national holiday
Slap the shit out of stupid tech support people day!
br
nope.. I spent 7 hours on the phone with a tech trying to get it to work right.
s p?ORIGURL=/sa/prot/admin/euser/activate.jsp ) is I.E. ONLY and that it won't work with any other browser. Tried Nutscrape, opera, mozilla.. all with no avail.
I actually had a "tech" that had a clue and after several hours of being on the phone he discovered that the comcast/attbi modem reg site ( https://sas.r1.attbi.com/sas/pub/logon/mainauth.j
OMFG... like it's really THAT HARD to code a page to be compatible with more than internet exploder !
uname -a works good too
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ever used Google before ?
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That or they immediatley think that you have one of those ch33p hardware routers
something that %99.9 of the people who buy those things never even change the default settings ( how 'secure' can the "default" settings be
EEXXXXAAACCCTTTLLLYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.. "
"... well sir, your are going to need to unhook your router..."
"The router is just a computer with openbsd on it.. "
"... OpenBSD?? what's that ??
".. An operating system that actually works right.. "
And so on and so forth..............
Just start talking the level 1 techs ear off with lots of technical info and most of them will not even understand what you are talking about and usually put you thru to a "higher level" tech.
may not work for everyone, but i sure do get good use out of it!
LOL |-)
"My email won't work.. "
"Well please stick in your system restore disk....
Comcast SUCKS ASS for *nix users if you want to get your own cable modem because their "registration" site is I.E. ONLY!
EXACTLY!!!
hmm... so m$ makes a big phat database with all the newsgroups...
wonder how long it will take until the *AA will *aquire* access to that database and sticking their greedy little hands into usenet and make a huge mess out of things.
Take all the money you would pay for all that m$ licensing and hire some ** COMPETENT ** IT personell with some.. uhh i dunno.. BRAINS??
Send all those stupid, button pushing id10ts to the unemployment line..
let the people with some brains take a turn for a while...
maybe you should have used gnome..
LOL
There are alot of references to "M$N messenger" , but only a few about "Windows Messenger"
Searching for "disable windows messenger" Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 44,400. Search took 0.08 seconds.
Searching for "disable msn messenger" Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 29,100. Search took 0.15 seconds.
Aim isn't any better....
Or if you would like to record all aim usage
or just control what they can do...
uhh... STFU & RTFM ?
Jabber works great for inhouse messaging
HAHA