the greed amazes me: SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems

[Tomas]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/05/1721238.shtml?tid=106&tid=185&tid=187&tid=88&tid=98&tid=99

I find this amazing... how can a company be this cruel?

[Tomas]

Its laughable, really - people will still keep using Linux and open source no matter what one company say or do.

Sure, but there is also alot of companies using linux for servers and such, this will scary many to actually pay them the license or move on to other systems like windows instead just because of the fear of being sued.

This will severly hurt linux  :-(

[Tomas]

yeah, i just hope IBM is keeping them with funding  :-)

[Tomas]

Even more fud from the evil company SCO: SCO Targets US Government, TiVo
An anonymous reader writes "According to SCO, if you have a TiVo set-top box, or those models of Sharp Zaurus which use Linux, someone now owes them $32, since the company wants money 'for each embedded system using Linux.' SCO also says government agencies must pay up to $699 for each copy of Linux that they use."

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030806S0025
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/21384-1.html

[Tomas]

Redhat enterprise is not free cause it includes commercial programs and has support... Linux in itself is still free