SCO targets locals in Linux battle

SCO Group has begun targeting Australian Linux users in its legal campaign to claim ownership of some code in the open-source operating system.

SCO has engaged lawyers to "contact Linux users" about its controversial Linux licencing scheme, after its US legal counsel reached 1500 of the world's largest Linux users in May.

SCO Australia-New Zealand general manager Kieran O'Shaugnessy would not say how many Australian organisations had been contacted, but claimed at least one sale had gone through for a SCO Linux licence.

SCO said several US companies had bought the licences, including Computer Associates although CA disputed the claim. SCO's Linux licences went on sale in the US in July, and were made available here in January at $999 per server processor and $285 per desktop machine.

Mr O'Shaugnessy said he received a dozen inquiries on the day the local licences were announced.

Linux doesn't need friends like you. Bill Gates helped create an operating system you don't like. You're talking about violence against him. Linux and open source take enough grief in these forums without rhetoric like yours.
I took the time to read other posts you've made in various FR threads. You mainly post smarmy, lame one liners at ~4 grade level. You should work on that.

Bill Gates helped create a marketing system you don't like.

There. Fixed it for ya.

Microsoft started with the product QDOS that they bought and renamed MSDOS. It created the original Windows based on an internal IBM project and the look of a Xerox PARC project.

It added NetBIOS, an IBM invention. Then added TCP/IP, a BSD invention, styled like the Trumpet IP stack.

Next came Windows NT, most of which came from VMS and OS/2.

Then there's Active Directory, a cheap Novell NDS knock-off. Internet Explorer, bought and extorted from Spyglass.

Word, bought from another company. Same for WMP.

And let's not forget that William H. Gates III got his start by borrowing open source code from the Homebrew Computers Club, adding it to some of his orginal programming and then copyrighting and publishing the whole thing as his own.

It could be said that building a company on theft, extortion and legal manipulation is an original thing for Bill, except that he likely stole the ideas from his father. You see, William H. Gates, Jr. was a patent and copyright lawyer.

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