The Coral Snake Ping.
Calling all Anti Commies and Anti Pirates
Posted on 09/02/2003 10:31:41 PM PDT by 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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What are the statutes about misuse of the mail? Sounds like fraud to me; they know they have no case.
Calling all Anti Commies and Anti Pirates
1) A liar, many windows patches require a reboot
or
2) A poor admin/user as you cant go 3 months without a serious windows patch
Verification
To Jim Robinson | 09/03/2003 10:20 PM CDT sent
I normally wouldn't bother you with something this trivial, but a user has posted some info I felt needed to be verified.
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In this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/974961/posts?page=35#35
Coral Snake writes:
"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."
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Have you made such a statement? If not, I'm sorry to bother you - I suspect that this user may hope to minimize the visibilty of this important ongoing story. If you did state that we only post this to general, please excuse me while I express that this lawsuit has important ramifications all linux users (and seeing that FR runs on Apache and Linux, this includes you).
I respectfully ask that you allow us to continue to post this to the frontpage news section so long as we stay off the breaking news.
I would consider posting to breaking news ONLY if SCO's offices were raided by law enforcement or something of that scale happened. There is an Enron style scandal developing here. This story does have the potential to create the occasional breaking news story.
I received this in return
Re: Verification
From Jim Robinson | 09/03/2003 11:13 PM CDT read
He asked me (paraphrasing) if he should post his threads to the general interest forum since we seem to be moving them all there anyway. I said yes, it would save us the trouble
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So, it does change the way I read your earlier post. Jim doesn't say anything about banning users. Just that he would prefer a post to General. That seems to be a distortion as far as I'm concerned. Coral Snake, I really don't give much credibility to anything you say anymore - but you really should consider that some things are easy to verify before you distort them.
I will, however, obey Jim's wishes that we keep this story in General. If A major development occurs that calls (IMHO) for this story to go to another section, I'm not going to lose any sleep over placing it there. I'll simply inform Jim of why I felt it was needed.
And before you even ask Coral Snake - if you do something and I bust you on it I will share the info with the others.
remembers to ctl-alt-del
That's a Windows thing, right?
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.
So in otherwords you dont know what you are talking about so you picked a side, your not in the Linux geek club youre in the windows geek club..
shadowman said: Jim doesn't say anything about banning users. Just that he would prefer a post to General. That seems to be a distortion as far as I'm concerned.
To which you replied: Actually you can thank Liberal Classic for the Ban thingy. He was the one that told me that frequent violation of official FR policy would lead to banning.
I beg your pardon. I have told you no such thing. I am neither in the habit of warning people nor in the habit of clicking the abuse button. Just to be sure I went back to check and I have never told you anything of the sort. Perhaps you are confusing me with someone else.
Wait a minute. If you think this is not news why do you suggest he is worried?
I'm pretty sure that you are the only one besides me who has ever used it and I did receive a warning about the consequences of violating official policy from the same person who gave me this on a later thread.
Think of the threads where I posted what you called political vitriol (Torvalds=Marx, Stallman=Marx etc. and the Linux Kool Aid drinker comments). You should be able to find the warning you gave me there.
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