[ale] SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux (fwd)

[Robert L. Harris]

Thus spake tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tfreeman at intel.digichem.net):

> 
> In this case, the individuals didn't even have the idea - they bought the 
> corpse, and think they have a money making machine.
> 
> IMHO, the current SCO management has contributed _zero_ to the 
> intellectual capital of the world, and expects to be well paid forever for 
> the effort.
> 
> On 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Brown wrote:
> 
> > What baffoons.  I wonder what it's like to walk aound knowing that
> > you're universally disdained.
> > 
> > $700/cpu?!  They are evidently pretty proud of whatever idea they had. 
> > This is where the IP nuts get me going.  They have one idea, however
> > long ago, and they want to make their living on that one thought for
> > years afterward.  GREED.
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:10, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > 
> > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html
> > > 
> > > Well, get out the uglies. I assume many/most of both lists have seen that 
> > > SCO has released liscence terms - a special introductory price of under 
> > > $700 per cpu, to rise to full price of $1,400 in the near future.
> > 
> > 


I'm not normally a conspiracist anymore but out of curiosity, is there
any way to find out exactly what ties M$ has to SCO?  The whole, sco
sues IBM and goes after Linux thing just seems to be the type of thing
which would just make them way too happy.


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