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SCO ready to charge Linux users for $1399 per CPU, Rediculous!

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fishsponge

Posted: Aug 7 2003, 12:58 PM

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http://www.theregister.com/content/53/32187.html

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SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GMT

Linux users face a serious question. Is $699 too much to pay for a good bath?

The $699 scrubbing fee is exactly how much SCO wants for one CPU's worth of a Linux license, and that's just for the time being. Come October 15, the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399.

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KptnKrill	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 02:27 PM
User Level: 2 Group: Members Posts: 25 Member No.: 67 Joined: 4-August 03	I know I'm not paying that.

fishsponge	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 04:23 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	yeah, same here! lol SCO are so annoying! we had our top bloke here (at Sun) the other day doing a presentation about the future of our company and he mentioned SCO and our relationship with them regarding the new Linux stuff we're selling... i never knew that much about SCO to be honest, but now i know exactly what they are trying to do, and it's so unfair! it's kinda like when BT tried to claim copyright on Hyperlinks, and charge people royalties when they use them on their sites! they dug out some crud from the past and tried to penalise ppl for using it!

KptnKrill	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 06:35 PM
User Level: 2 Group: Members Posts: 25 Member No.: 67 Joined: 4-August 03	I don't really care anyways. I don't think that SCO really has anything, and that eventually this'll all blow over in a matter of time. But if they were to win..... :( Things could get pretty hairy for the linux community.

fishsponge	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 07:27 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	very true.... but in all honesty, i don't see them winning, cos even if it goes thru, the linux community will just recode the necessary bits probably! it's not like SCO are trying to copyright all of linux, after all :D

KptnKrill	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 08:12 PM
User Level: 2 Group: Members Posts: 25 Member No.: 67 Joined: 4-August 03	yah, and even if worst comes to worst I'll just start using BSD or something else. :)

fishsponge	Posted: Aug 7 2003, 11:38 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	do we know whether BSD has SCO's code in it or not though??

KptnKrill	Posted: Aug 8 2003, 07:51 PM
User Level: 2 Group: Members Posts: 25 Member No.: 67 Joined: 4-August 03	I'm fairly certain that BSD is clean. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong tho. :)

sinchik	Posted: Mar 10 2004, 01:28 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Member No.: 205 Joined: 10-March 04	Guys i'm not sure that SCO is worst than BSD cause i'm using Linux at home and in our CO we have SCO so i'm working with Linuz and SCO at the same time and I cant say that Linux better or SCO better they are both family of UNIX so mostly they look like to each other but ONE problem Linux is better than New version of SCO, its strange that SCO got so many bugs in new version.

fishsponge	Posted: Mar 10 2004, 10:54 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 679 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 03	the debate isn't about SCO's version of linux though. it's about SCO (the company) trying to charge people to use it's version of Linux, because all other versions supposedly contain it's code in their kernels... As for whether BSD is clean or not, we were wondering if BSD has SCO's code in it's kernel, and therefore whether SCO had a hope in hell of suing people for using that as well.

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