[amigatec]

I bet SCO makes a lot of money with this STUPID idea!!

But Darl McBride isn't to smart anyway, I guess if you can't sell your crappy product, you cam always claim something that isn't your and charge for it. MS has been stealing from others for years.

[amigatec]

Ping the Penguins!!!

[dr_who_2]

Now look here. That's red meat for Slashdot, and they won't take kindly to you cross posting, especially if you post it here first.

[ThinkDifferent]

I bet SCO makes a lot of money with this STUPID idea!!

I doubt it. At least not until they publicly show something vaguely resembling evidence of their claims.

[JRandomFreeper]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pay for Linux? Never. They can have my hard disk when they pry it from my cold, dead server. I've worked with and on linux since the slackware distro was 5 floppies and minix was the available filesystem.

SCO can embrace that which is behind me.

/john

[capt. norm]

They are starting to read the tea-leaves that tell them:"Forget it!"

[The Duke]

Actually, this may end up being a successful, if unethical,
strategy.

[Dimensio]

Well, I'm so glad to hear that my currently unlicensed Linux box can finally be "legal". I look forward to looking over SCO's licensing terms and then ignoring them because SCO is so clearly full of it.

[Nick Danger]

The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.

It is time for the courts to move on this nonsense. It's been great fun for the trade journalists, but here we see them selling protection against unproven claims. This is outrageous. It is like a guy waving a gun the street, demanding money from people. This "gun" does not exist, except for the fact that the court has not yet ruled on the validity of SCO's claim that linux contains its property.

That claim is being litigated. For them to solicit money on the basis of that claim, using "more litigation" as a threat, is extortion. And for Boies & Co., it's Barratry.

Let SCO prove its claim that linux contains its property. Then they can ask money for the use of what is rightfully theirs. For now, this is a circus act with the clowns using the court system as a toy. And now they are using their toy to extort money from people. Enough!

[dr_who_2]

Even if this IP lawsuit BS runs out of steam (and I hope that it will), I think the best penguin zealots can hope for is that Linux continues to nip at Microsoft's heals after 2003 is released, then desktop Linux/GNU/XFree86/FreeBSD will likely have more catching up to do. But that situation is probably the best of both worlds. A large number of people get neatsy-keen graphics and gui features "right now", a smaller clique gets neatsy-keen open source versions of the same a little later. Unfortunately, there will probably still be an even larger number of people who still have dos or windows3.1 on their machines and won't know the difference.

[B Knotts]

I think it's time for an FTC complaint against SCO.

[B Knotts]

In other news, David Boies has been formally accused of an ethics violation in Florida.

[pointsal]

screw_david_b

[Redcloak]

I bet SCO makes a lot of money with this STUPID idea!!

The Nigerian email scam makes loads of money too. Never underestimate the power of stupid.

[Bush2000]

But Darl McBride isn't to smart anyway...

McBride has a lawsuit pending against IBM for $1 billion -- and a reasonable shot of winning. You're posting tripe on a website. Gee... who's smarter...

[TechJunkYard]

While the majority of Linux customers probably would not participate in a SCO licensing program...

You bet yer bippy.

SCO is "hoping that even if 99 percent of Linux customers laugh in their face, that there will be sufficient large companies who, for what is presumably going to be a relative drop in the bucket of their IT budgets, can potentially eliminate a cloud over their heads," he said.

Translation: there is a sucker born every minute.