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?

[KennyR]

Probably their butt-buddies Microsoft trying to kill off Linux using SCO as a puppet.

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

[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  :-(

[JoannaK]

Ah well.. FUD campaing at it's best.

Edit:
Reminds me of certain other Campaign a bit over year ago.. "Get Legal or Else.... "

[ottomobiehl]

Well, perhaps this is a possible light at the end of another long dark tunnel.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2003/08/04/cz_dl_0804linux.html

[Tomas]

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

[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

[JoannaK]

Well. if it were only 699$ ... but..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html

Come October 15, the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399.

Looks like their greed has no limit.

[legion]

Well, we knew SCO is trying to pump-n-dump the stock, but this little announcement probably went something like this:

MS exec#1:  "Jeez, Ed, you were friggin' hammered last night."
MS exec#2:  "Yeah.  Did I do anything stupid?"
MS exec#1:  "You called Darl McBride and told him to charge linux users $700 a pop to have a legal 2.4 kernel."
MS exec#2:  "Really?  Did he do it?"
MS exec#1:  "Yeah."
Both:  "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

[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

[olegil]

It won't happen. SCO have ####ed up their arguments more than once already. The whole thing is just an attempt at getting some money before they are gone...

[T_Bone]

> 5. Windows CE

??Open source?

[JoannaK]

Olegil: I know you are right about the real cause and I sincerely hope you are also right of result of lawsuit, but unfortunately on todays Lawer (and money) ruled world it's not certain-  

[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=

[jeffimix]

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