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

[Adrin]

I can't help it, but there is a joke in this some place.

Microsoft won, sort of, it case.  Everyone knows M$ is case sensitive

Unix on the other hand is.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Transam
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:53 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux
> (fwd)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:07:41AM -0400, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > What baffoons.  I wonder what it's like to walk aound knowing that
> > you're universally disdained.
> 
> Ask Bill Gates.  Ask him if he cares what anyone things.
> 
> > $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.
> 
> Money for nothing and your chicks (or is it tricks) for free.
> 
> Someone would be a fool to give them a penny until after the Red Hat
> suit completes.  At that time, it is quite likely that it will be
> proven that SCO knowingly committed fraud.
> 
> If anyone has gotten (or gets) such a SCO letter, do reply and ask them
> what lines of code they are claiming are their IP.  When they fail to
> answer the question, you will have done due diligence and will have
> acted in good faith.  Thus, in the unlikely event that they actually
> prove their claim, it will be unlikely that they could successfully
> claim damages.
> 
> Since Red Hat likely will end up owning SCO (my prediction), I'd be
> more concerned about not pissing off Red Hat.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> 
> > Matthew Brown
> > CorData, Inc.
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