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

[Hammer]

The industry leading Linux vendor (i.e. Red Hat**) has initiated a counter court action against SCO. **Red Hat is part of the Unbreakable Linux alliance (includes Oracle and Dell Corp).    

It seems that X86 based Linux vendors is headed for the battle of Armageddon.

Refer to
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10849
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10856

[Hammer]

IF worst case happens; Linux’s demise may give other open sourced OS** some chance in the open source markets.

**These include;
1. Open VMS.
2. AROS.  
3. FreeBSD and variants (currently, third most used OS in the X86).
4. Open BeOS.
5. Windows CE

[Hammer]

T_Bone wrote:
> 5. Windows CE

??Open source?

Try
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Open+source+Windows+CE&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

[Hammer]

jeffimix wrote:
Open source for vendors and the ilk NOT for free download like Linux is.

Where do you freely download Lindows**, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux**" and Xandros OS, **?  

Careful with any generalizations, since there are commercial Linux distros…

PS; FreeBSD can be also freely (legal) downloaded.

[Hammer]

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

Of course the Linux kernel and GNU ecosystem is free…