SCO to send out Linux invoices

Cnet News ^ | 8-2-2003 | By Stephen Shankland

[Coral Snake]

SCO to send out Linux invoices

By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 2, 2003, 5:54 PM PT

The SCO Group is turning up the heat in its attempt to impose Unix license fees for Linux use: It plans to begin sending invoices to companies before the month is out. The Lindon, Utah-based company announced in August that it wants corporations to buy Unix licenses for using the similar Linux operating system, asking $699 for a single-processor Linux server. But Tuesday, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said the company will begin the more active approach of sending invoices requesting payment to commercial Linux users, "probably some time this month."

Sending invoices, while a more-aggressive move, still stops short of the kind of legal action the company has threatened before. In July, SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride described the licensing program as "a solution that...gets you square with the use of Linux, without having to go to the courtroom."

SCO will pursue commercial Linux users who have discussed their Linux work publicly, Stowell said. However, it won't take action until it's done more research on those businesses, he added.

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[AFreeBird]

$700 bucks for how much alledged UNIX code? Seems a little extreme to me. But hey, they learned from their master - His Billness.

Seems to me like SCO is trying to steal code from LINUX.

[Coral Snake]

I appoligise for my reaction to the viper sig. Went to its site and found out it does pretty much the same thing there that it does here. However I still think Mr. "Penguin Ping" made a poor choice of signature if the intent was to razz my screen name. The Eastern Coral snake is not a viper it is an EPLAPID. ;-).
And by the way SCO seems to have arranged a nice little "party" for you little "General Interest" censor penguin bots, and bring your WALLET!!! It seems to be MANDITORY equipment for this little shindig.

[rdb3]

Uh, d'uh!

It appears you know nothing about simple HTML headers from your browser, ya little copy cat.

Here you go, slithering dude. No hard feelings, okay?

[rdb3]

I guess the gig will truly be up if this stock heads down swiftly starting tomorrow.

[amigatec]

It correctly identified my OS is Linux.

I am waiting for my invoice.

Bring it on Darl!!!

[amigatec]

You have NO business placing that kind of information in a public forum. This "Penguin Ping is going to be removed by the moderator.

You really are as stupid as you sound.

[Salo]

Oh, great. He'll be tied up for hours until he remembers to ctl-alt-del and end the task to get out of the link. ;-)

Here you go, slithering dude. No hard feelings, okay?

[Dimensio]

But if Garden Snake's computer is tied up like that, how will he complete his eloquent essay on the perils of the GPL and open source software and how the courts not invalidating the GPL will turn the US into a totalatarian communistic nation?

[Still Thinking]

I hope I get one! I'm almost out of TP.

[rdb3]

remembers to ctl-alt-del

That's a Windows thing, right?

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, but it got mine wrong.

[Salo]

Actually, he is working on his Microsoft opus, if I am not mistaken.

[gore3000]

How can they go around suing people, if their right to the code has not even been established in court yet?

Seems they are putting the cart before the horse and that they are utterly desperate. Maybe they are trying to bump the stock price up a bit so they can sell some more of their shares?

[Dimensio]

For us it's 'kill pid'.

[Coral Snake]

I appologize for accusing any Linux users here of practicing censorship. I sent a Freep Mail to Jim Robinson
and found out it is the official Free Republic policy to place these tech threads in the General Interest forum from now on. Just reminding all of you out there when you are ready to start posting them again so that you won't be banned for constantly placing these threads in the wrong forum.

[shadowman99]

"For us it's 'kill pid'."

What's your best uptime?

My personal best (for one of my home systems) was 296 days. rebooted for a new kernel.

Show me a windows box that runs for 296 days without problems.

Show me a windows box with a user compiled kernel.

[Coral Snake]

In view of my last post anyone who continues to post a tech thread to the news/activism forum rather than the proper General Interest forum really DESERVES THIS!!!

[Dimensio]

What's your best uptime?

The only Linux boxen that I manage are at home. My main machine usually gets shut down to cut down on electricity costs, since it isn't doing anything important when I'm not at it unless I've set up a long compile or download.

The box that I use for firewalling and IP masquerading (explicitly allowed by my ISP before any neurotic nutcases around here try to jump on me for that) has had uptimes that can be measured in months, though not yet in years. It's only gone down because of a system crash once, however, when one of the drives died (and the death of the drive was hardly the fault of the OS). A few of the other times were for kernel upgrades or power failures that lasted longer than five minutes. Oh, and when I put a new drive in, I had to bring it down for that.

I've taken a new position at my workplace, however, and there's a chance that I might be able to find a use for a Linux box somewhere on the otherwise Windows-only network (the network admin has been playing with Linux himself, and he's open to the possibility of using a few Linux network tools for traffic analysis). I just need a little time, and I can have the Lotus Notes server running on a Red Hat box, with user workstations accessing the client via Wine on a fresh Debian install. Muahaha!

[TechJunkYard]

Beautiful.

[rdb3]

Dude, get some rest. Help, even!

I just posted that link. Yet you must think everyone is just plain dumb for not paying attention to the source of the link by simply doing a mouse-over.

Beam me up, Scottie!