SCO Sucks

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:52:21 -0400
Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html
> 
> A desktop license is only $199; single CPU servers are $699.
> After October 15th, prices go up, so act now! Fucking bastards.

This is like their licensing for UnixWare. Of course the difference is that
Linux supports lots more hardware and 3rd party apps. I think this is simply
a way to offer Linux without worry that it will eat into UnixWare sales,
which had to be the case for OpenLinux. We made that switch. It cost SCO.
This will stop the switch to Linux. Oh, I mean to SCO's Linux, anyway.

The problem is that as soon as SCO make public which code is effected (if
any), it will be reimplemented. Making the need for a license go away.

OOC, is any of the IP SCO squalk about for the 'general idea' of the things,
or is it just for the specific implementation. I have not really sorted that
out.

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