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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[Duke Nukum]

I think my point would be that I don't have to be in the Windows geek club because Windows works.

Photoshop and Nero have been around for a long time and if I need an app I'm not familiar with, I can go to Best Buy, see what they have, take some notes, and check out C/Net.

I have no idea one what a sourceforge even is, and, as it turns out, I don't need to.

I mean, rpm, what's the deal with that anyway? Why don't UNIX programs just install themselves? And if you have to have a seperate program installer, why not make it usable? If I do a man page of rpm, I get fifty-thousand options I don't care about. I don't want to worry about the O/S. I want to run what I want to run.

Or convert? The last time I tried using convert, I remembered why I avoid using convert. The last time I actually tried to read the man file, I found it so jargon-filled that only a skitzophrenic pedophile would want understand it.

I'm pretty sure that the key to UFO's and their tie-in to the Kennedy assassination was in the convert man file, but I couln't easily find any information on photo manipulation.

Its like my good friend and CEO of the Snacky S'mores Corporation Gil Bates always says:

Eat Snacky S'mores

M'kay?

So, I wish both SCO and the UNIX people luck. I hope one of them gets stuck with UNIX so I don't have to.

[N3WBI3]

oh where to start, where to start.

So your going to trash Linux despite the fact you have made no effort to find apps for it. Best buy sells redhat, redhat comes with GIMP (same as photoshop), OpenOffice (Same as MSOffice for 99% of theworld), XCDroast (easy CD Burning software), on a Linux distro you get most of the apps you can find at best buy for windows.

Sourceforge (www.sourceforge.net) is the largest repository of opensource software projects on the net. on this site people start, join, or just download projects for free with no conditions. Sourceforge is where I found rdesktop a client to make a Linux desktop log onto a windows terminal server.

RPM (Redhat Package Manager) makes installing applications on Linux easy (and in some windows managers automagic as you ask). all you need to do it type rpm -i YOUR_APP To install and rpm -e YOUR_APP To remove You might be thinking of the old days when you had to compile apps.

I think its great you bring up convert a command line app for changing immage attributes, do you do that at the command line in windows? no? than use gimp to do it and stop complaining.

So, I wish both SCO and the UNIX people luck. I hope one of them gets stuck with UNIX so I don't have to. Mower to ya' I will continue to use an operating system I can use for whatever I want. I want to set up a webserver, its all good no more $ needed. FTP, again no problem. We *geeks* as you are so fond of calling us even ported things like Gimp to windows so in addition to using it on Linux you can use it on a crap errr windows as well..

[Duke Nukum]

You keep missing my point: I don't need to do any of that stuff with windows. So, why would I want to?

Why would I want to type rpm anything when I can just double-click or put the install cd in the drive?

I should I wait for games to be ported to UNIX when they come out a long time before for Windows?

There is just no reason to get pengified. Except for an irrational fear of Bill Gates that most UNIX people seem to exhibit.

And, I'm not trashing linux, it just sucks. That's a fact. Windows sucks too, it just sucks less. And gets less sucky with each new release whereas UNIX always seems to be at the same level of suckiness.

I think it is because of Open Source. When you get free software, who do you complain to to get it fixed? And why should they listen when you haven't invested anything in the software?

I remember when I first read the snotty note about why there was no spell checker in Mozilla after all the hub bub about how great Mozilla was. That's just the sort of attitude I come to expect from UNIX and the Open Source community.

That, and riots at IMF summits.

[N3WBI3]

And you totally ignored the fact in windows managers like Gnore you **CAN** just click on an RPM to install it!

Now if were talking about a games box, you got me Linux will never be the gaming platform that windows is, Ill give you that.

There is just no reason to get pengified. Except for an irrational fear of Bill Gates that most UNIX people seem to exhibit. How about the fact I wanted to set up a web server/ftp server and outside access to my computer and not have to pay more than a thousand dollars to do it. I am willing to say that yes if your looking for a gaming station go with windows, if you just want a box to get on the web do email, and type reports Linux does just as well as windows and is just as easy. You on the other hand say if you dont use windows its because your a nut, who here is being irrational.

I think it is because of Open Source. When you get free software, who do you complain to to get it fixed? With the sourceforge site that you blew off you can complain right to the darn people writing the code. My company does tens of thousands of dollars of business with MS do you think I could get a hold of one of their developers?

If you dont think there has been an improvement in Linux over the past five years youre on crack or have not used it. I was totally a windows user until redhat 7 came out because redhat 5 was a pain to use. Now I have a windows desktop (from my office), and my home PC is Linux because its just as easy, does not cost me a dime, and is more stable.

When you say Linux sucks more you are not talking about stability, speed, lifetime, or scalability.

[Duke Nukum]

When you say Linux sucks more you are not talking about stability, speed, lifetime, or scalability.

No, I'm talking in terms of general suckiness.

As for all that other stuff, I have to use this crap at work and if they can't be bothered to tell me about this gnome thing and this codescourge then why should I care.

UNIX had its chance and it blew it. I am now repelled by its general geekiness and the need of UNIX people to jargon up their man files.

I will not willingly play ball in their cracked court.

If they ever make anything worth while and put it in a place I care to look, I may give it another look. I just don't see why I should right now.

TCO has been just fine on my new Alienware. Got the VirtualGirl running. Got Unreal 2 running. Got Warcraft III running. Got broadband. Got Windows Media Player. Got Real One. Got that Mac media player. Got Photoshop Elements. Got XP, which is the best OS I've ever used.

So, the only place I have to suffer from the ignorance of UNIX geeks is at work. And I don't really care about work too much any more. If all this is as great as you say, then I expect the swap space problems will magically clear themselves up as soon a as geek comes buy and spouts some incomprehensible jargon and spells Windows as "Windoze" 'cause they are just so freakin' clever.

I'm sure they'll stop by on the way to the next IMF riot.

Well, this monkey has to fly for tonight. The wicked witch is after this little girl and her dog who murdered her [the wicked witch's] sister.

TCO is SOL on the NCEP. Whatever that might mean.

And SNAFU is UBER ALLES.

[N3WBI3]

well keep cursing the darkness, im out..

[Liberal Classic]

Check again. My first post to you was on August 10th, and the post with Mr. Peabody was on the 15th. The thread was called SCO to argue General Public License (GPL) Invalid and in it I did not make vague threads about being banned. The other thread in which I used Mr. Peabody was on the 20th called Getting a glimpse at SCO's evidence and I didn't mention anything about banning in that thread either.

Go whine to someone else, thank you.

[Coral Snake]

I applogise: Must have been somebody else and could even have been me. I have been using Mr. Peabody a lot lately too
particularly against profanity. (This little scolder and pun maker was one of my favorite charicters from the Rockey and Bullwinkle show.) ;-).

[Liberal Classic]

Apology accepted. :)