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SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
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SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 22:38 UTC (Tue) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link]
I think with this one SCO crossed the line where the actions become criminal. It is cheap and fast to end criminal behaviour, at least cheaper and faster then it is to end unlawfull behaviour. Maybe US Linux users should investigate their possibilities, as this lookes like an attempt to extort money from every Linux user.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:03 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
Unless Red Hat's injunction is granted, with the IBM lawsuit so far off, SCO will make out like bandits. In the short term, companies committed to Linux and paranoid will pay up; even just a fraction, but it's all gangster money for SCO. In the long term, companies will move away from Linux.Linux will largely die.
Eventually, Linux will be exonerated, and SCO will show to have been criminals but the damage will have been done.
I think were I to meet Daryl McBride or Chris Sontag on the street, I would have a *very* hard time not slugging them very hard across the face.
-Rob
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:05 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]
Is there actually any evidence that companies will pay up?How many companies using AIX switched over to Solaris/UnixWare when SCO revoked the AIX licensed?
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:24 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Is there actually any evidence that companies will pay up?It almost seems as if they don't want people to pay up, based on the cost of a license. I don't know how much Solaris runs these days, but $1399 seems high to me...
We all know Linux is good, but I never realized that it was this good. :-)
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:42 UTC (Wed) by phil42 (guest, #5175) [Link]
Good point. Stand up to the bitch-assed punks.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 2:04 UTC (Wed) by dbhost (guest, #3461) [Link]
SCO has refused to show where they have any legitimate claim to any Intellectual property in Linux. They continue to distribute the Linux kernel with the GPL and all code as far as I have been able to ascertain intact and unmolested by removal of any SCO proprietary code. And now they want to charge me to use something they don't even own? Imagine the following call coming in to your local police station. (Redneck emphasis added to illustrate the absurdity of the situation).Dispatcher. "911 what is your emergency"
McBumpkin "Billy Joe just broke into mah house an' stole stuff".
Dispatcher "Sir, could you tell me what stuff you claim Billy Joe took from you?"
McBumpkin "Ain't gonna do that. Then he'd give it back. I wan' that sonofab*tch shot now!"
Dispatcher "Sir, we can't just go out and shoot people. Now can you please tell me what exactly was stolen?"
McBumpkin "Ah already tol' you once! I ain't gonna do that. Then he'd give it back!"
Dispatcher "Ooookay. Sir. Can you prove that you ever owned whatever it was that you say was stolen?".
McBumpkin "Aw shur ah kin. Jim Bob here rote me a receet fer some stuff a while ago."
Dispatcher "So, what you are saying is that Jim Bob sold you some stuff, and that Billy Joe took all of that stuff from you without your permission?"
McBumpkin "Nah. Billy Joe took some tiny pieces of the stuff".
Dispatcher "Sir, what exactly should I tell the officer to look for when I send him out to talk to Billy Joe?"
McBumpkin "Is you stoopid er whut? Ah already tol' you, I ain't sayin
!"
(Dispatcher dimisses caller and gets on the radio to the patrol officer"
Dispatcher "All units be on the lookout for a drunk bumpkin. Claims to have been robbed of nefarious property he refuses to identify, and wants former friend, Billy Joe dead. Looks like McBumpkin lost another competition."
At best these guys are simpletons bumbling forward under the advice of a slimeball lawyer. I doubt it. I believe this is nothing short of Extortion and Racketeering.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 9:25 UTC (Wed) by djabsolut (guest, #12799) [Link]
:-) exactlyWhat really puzzles me is why would any company, that uses Linux, be legally inclined to inform SCO on exactly how many Linux machines they use? SCO can do a grand total of squat until its IP infringement allegations are actually proven it a court of law (late 2005 at the earliest if we look only at the SCOvsIBM case). In other words, this licensing hoopla is yet another fine piece of FUD that will only catch the uninformed.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 18:13 UTC (Wed) by TheOneKEA (guest, #615) [Link]
HAHAHA!!!!I think that illustrates the absurdity of SCO's actions quite accurately :)
Somehow I believe that even if some people do pay just to keep SCO from falming them, they'll only pay for machines that people can identify remotely as being Linux-based. I'm sure the companies won't pay for machines that no one can see ;)
Maybe NOW someone willwake up and nip SCO in the bud; I don't see how this could possibly not be considered extortion (IANAL).
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 20:32 UTC (Wed) by alexs (guest, #13637) [Link]
*smile* nice contribution.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:18 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
It's not this big a deal. Linux is a great kernel but it's no the only one.Robert Millan is currently porting Debian to the FreeBSD kernel. You'll have all the apps your used to, running with glibc, compiled with gcc, etc. Just a different kernel, most users would never notice.
I'm not saying we ditch the Linux developers but we're partly to blame for this situation, we made Linux a Jesus nut for our GNU systems. If we stop being completely dependent on Linux, cases like this won't affect us.
Would SCO have started this whole fiasco if our GNU systems were kernel-independant a year ago?
Ciaran O'Riordan
Debian GNU/FreeBSD: http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/gnu-libc-based
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:25 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
Kernel choice would be a great thing.On the other hand, the huge focus on Linux has given Linux a lot of device drivers. How good is the FreeBSD device driver support? For instance, are there DRI modules for the FreeBSD kernel that work with XFree86 4 and (say) Radeon cards?
Also, though the GNU project may not like it, "Linux" is what has received the name recognition amongst the general world. A huge amount of ground will be lost if we have to generalize that and explain that we're generalizing it.
-Rob
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:47 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
> the huge focus on Linux has given Linux a lot of device driversIt's certainly an important point but the Linux and FreeBSD guys can at least look at eachothers code. (when the drivers are free software)
> "Linux" is what has received the name recognition
The importance of the term "GNU/Linux" is not an all or nothing issue, it's the more the merrier. If people don't hear about the GNU project, we are more likely to end up with 80% proprietary "Linux" OSs in ten years time. Back near square one.
> A huge amount of ground will be lost if we have to generalize
> that and explain
There's no point getting the message to a larger audience if we distort the message in the process. Do we want free software, studyable file formats, and usable protocols? or do we want people to run Linux-based OSs?
How hard it is to get the message across doesn't mean we should change the message.
Ciaran O'Riordan
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:11 UTC (Wed) by trutkin (subscriber, #3919) [Link]
Well, no. The Linux guys can look at the BSD code, but the BSD guys can't look at the Linux code. License issues. Let's not start a flame war though.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:24 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
> the BSD guys can't look at the Linux codeCopyright covers copying, not looking. From looking, comes knowledge and understanding, these are also beyond the scope of copyright.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 2:22 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]
Looking at and copying are different things. But let's not start a flame war ;)
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:32 UTC (Wed) by DaveK (subscriber, #2531) [Link]
> It's certainly an important point but the Linux and FreeBSD guys can at least look at> eachothers code. (when the drivers are free software)
Better that the BSD guys don't look inside Linux.
They might look at the code that SCO contests - especially if they don't know where it is, and at this point they become contaminated, and any work they undertake thereafter would become a potentially contestable 'derived work', and the cycle repeats.
but IANAL.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 8, 2003 0:04 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]
> For instance, are there DRI modules for the FreeBSD kernel that work with> XFree86 4 and (say) Radeon cards?
Yes, as well as with most other DRI supported cards. :) The DRM as shipped with XFree86 4.3 works on FreeBSD, the one in current DRI CVS on NetBSD as well, and I believe there are patches for OpenBSD. Most of the hardware-dependent code is shared between OSs.
BSD may be no safer
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:31 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
Don't forget that SCO has cast its glance towards BSD more than once. If there were to be a mass exodus towards a BSD kernel, I don't doubt that SCO would discover something it "owns" there too...
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:11 UTC (Wed) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link]
You'll have all the apps your used to, running with glibc, compiled with gcc, etc. Just a different kernel, most users would never notice.If you're talking about users who are running uniprocessor systems, you're probably right. But a big part of commercial acceptance for Linux is its ability to run on SMP systems -- moving to the FreeBSD kernel isn't going to work for companies who are deploying Linux on SMP boxes.
It's nice that the Debian folks are providing that alternative for users who want to run a BSD kernel, but it isn't going to solve the problem for a whole host of users and companies who have hardware that's not supported by FreeBSD... I've got two dual-CPU boxes and an old Dell PowerEdge with four Pentium Pro CPUs -- I'm not too anxious to install an OS that can't make use of SMP.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:31 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
FreeBSD's kernel has SMP. It's in the stock kernel since 5.0.http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html
http://www.freebsd.org/smp/
I don't know how it compares to Linux, probably not as good but more users brings more development.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:47 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
And SCO wont be suing everyone for using BSD kernels and sowing the same fear uncertainty and doubt that SCO doesnt own the ideas behind FreeBSD... The rights that SCO 'owns' are to the hole AT&T OS.. that would be ls, rm, mv, etc etc etc.Running to another kernel will only delay the lawsuits for a week or two.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 7:56 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]
Quite interesting!Choice is good :)
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:39 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
But to RED HAT to lose, SCO has to show were the infringing code is, and that code will be cleaned, perhaps in less than a week... so RED HAT by losing will actualy win.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:30 UTC (Wed) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207) [Link]
True, Red Hat could fall on its sword, the infringing code identified and removed, and the world would move on.
However, SCO might argue in court that the evidence should be "lawyers eyes only" due to trade secret issues, and if successful, the code would not be made public if SCO wins.
Of course, Red Hat's argument is that since all Linux source code is public anyway, there are no secrets in it, so trade secret protections don't apply. This ought to be very compelling. Let's hope so, anyway.
What really annoys me is the way SCO paints all of us Linux community folks as pirates who just want to get away with stealing their code. Based on all the fine, intelligent people I've met in our community, this couldn't be further from the truth. Almost all of us DO respect copyrights, and just want any copyright-infringing code, if it really is there, to be verifiably identified, removed, and rewritten in a clean room, so that GNU/Linux can be free of IP infringement issues.
All this "We'll show you a little sample of infringing code if you sign an NDA, but you can't write any of it down, and we won't tell you exactly what the files are" nonsense is utterly contemptible, and I desperately hope that Red Hat win their summary judgements to put an end to it.
Finally, if it's true that SCO programmers copied chunks of Linux into the Linux Kernel Personality layer of SCO's Unix product, and you're one of those programmers reading this, PLEASE do the honorable thing and come forward publicly about this; this is too big an issue, and too much damage can be done TO THE WHOLE FLOSS MOVEMENT by this SCO FUD engine for you to remain quiet about this.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 1:31 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Trade Secrets in a Open-Source kernel ?And if RED HAD lawyers are going to make a wonderfull job, they will bring up every kind of expert witness to validate every piece of SCO evidence.
I belive those who signed that NDA were deceived all the time, because although they saw two pieces of identical code, they could not certify Sh?t.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 3:20 UTC (Wed) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link]
...SCO might argue in court that the evidence should be "lawyers eyes only" due to trade secret issues...
Perhaps Red Hat's lawyers could convince the judge to include all non-infringing code lines in some public document.
By setting the price at $1399, SCO may have helped Red Hat decide how much to ask in damages.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 17:07 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
What really annoys me is the way SCO paints all of us Linux community folks as pirates who just want to get away with stealing their code.
Agreed. Especially considering that SCO is trying to abscond with the huge amount of work that the Linux kernel community has done, and use it to justify lining their own pockets.
Who are the real pirates here? Who are the ones committing wanton theft and abuse? Whose rights are being trampled upon?
The fact that anybody at all in our society gives SCO absolutely any credence is an indication of how much perspective we have lost when it comes to the whole idea of "intellectual property rights".
-Rob
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 14:28 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
And this is exactly the reason why the injunction will probably be granted. But of course, you never know.
Oh, I cna't even type I'm so mad!
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:07 UTC (Tue) by pto (guest, #5753) [Link]
Sorry, I find it impossible to compose a rational comment. I just read their FAQ athttp://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxlicensefaq.html.
What a load!
Development costs??
Posted Aug 6, 2003 3:31 UTC (Wed) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]
From the FAQ:
Why is SCO charging so much for the right to use SCO IP in Linux when most of the code in the Linux distribution is not SCO IP?
SCO has invested hundreds of millions in the development of UNIX and is therefore entitled to a reasonable return on its investment. SCO believes that major portions of the 2.4 and later versions of the Linux kernel are unauthorized derivative works of SCO UNIX IP.
Hah! Hundreds of millions in development of UNIX? They bought it from Novell! (Well.. SCO bought it from Novell, Caldera bought SCO and now they're back to being SCO, but you know what I mean) All the work that they've mentioned so far (RCU, NUMA, JFS) was developed by other companies, before SCO even bought SVR4!
Development costs??
Posted Aug 6, 2003 12:00 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]
Their mindset is clear here: they're "entitled" to profits, and if they somehow mismanage their company to such an extent that they don't get any, then the government should step in and correct the situation.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:13 UTC (Tue) by JvdS43 (guest, #8837) [Link]
Many thanks to those who is helping the linux users! Yes SCO helps us to understandtheir way of communication. It is not really connected with people who really understand
the linux O.S. It is just a poor way of creativity searching for several attacks against
who "themselves" Think about it. They need a judge, they need a fight, is it all about
money? A linux user loves his/her machine because the linux community has a faith
about their operating system and this is why many people be afraid of it, because this
faith is strong. Be not afraid of SCO or Microsoft because of their money, but believe in
your own way of freedom which is really the part of our own linux system
Perfect solution
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:22 UTC (Tue) by pto (guest, #5753) [Link]
Ah, it's simple. Offer a license to users of SCO Unix operating systems that include Linux intellectual property. Grant them indemnity for any past violations of Linux IP, for just $10,000 per CPU.
Perfect solution
Posted Aug 6, 2003 1:05 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
I'm afraid SCO won't really care if they lose all their customers because of this.
Perfect solution
Posted Aug 6, 2003 6:05 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
Which customers ?Seriously, I suggested to a few sysadmin friends of mine that SCO should be boycotted because of this mess.
Every single one of them responded with: "Fine, but this wouldn't change anything because I don't have, or intend to ever have, any SCO-product in my shop anyway."
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 5, 2003 23:34 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Is nothing,... but as user and a business, i'm so affraid of SCO litigations, like Robertsons Lindows and McNealy's SUN, that i'm compeled to repeat myself once more, that i will never pay a cent to SCO...... i'm open to any SCO pledge for litigation, and ill be willing to give my lawyer contact...
If anybody from SCO, happens to read this and care, my contact
Mário Alberto Marques
mmarq@netvisao.pt
Portugal
Setubal
...even considering that Caldera has indeed contributed to the kernel, i like to pay for others SCAMS as much i like horse thiefs and chicken robbers,... so please dont send anybody asking for fees, because i'll loose my dogs on him.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:06 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
You'll notice that SCO is having a nice little party with their "partners" in Vegas on Aug. 17-19... anybody care to show up and exercise some mildly disruptive free speech (and of course, notify the local media...)??
Who's the .com behind the throne...?
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:17 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
Here's some text from the above-mentioned SCO Licensing FAQ:
"Q: I have Linux servers deployed in my organization. What options do I have besides purchasing a SCO IP license?
A: There are 3 options for you to evaluate:
* You have the option to do nothing, adopt a “wait and see” attitude, and hope that SCO is not serious about enforcing its intellectual property rights in the end user community.
* You can replace all servers, desktop and embedded uses of Linux.
* You can obtain a license from SCO to use SCO IP in binary form in Linux distributions"
It's the second option that has me wondering, who really will benefit from all this industrial-strength FUD... the name of a certain company in Redmond keeps coming to mind more and more...
The image that keeps coming to mind is a big bully and his yapping pooch on a short leash.
Who's the .com behind the throne...?
Posted Aug 6, 2003 0:51 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
Or Sun.... if you can believe the ever changing history of the complaints.. they paid SCO off way before Microsoft did.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 2:42 UTC (Wed) by dtucker (subscriber, #6575) [Link]
I realise the ads might rotate, but the one I got was "Oreally's Practical Unix Terrorism"...
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 8:31 UTC (Wed) by monk234 (guest, #11260) [Link]
WHOA!!! Let's not press the panic button here folks. SCO is a LONG way from proving anything!!! All they've got are accusations. I'm convinced it's a con job for SCO to ride the gravy train. We (the users) should tell McBride to shove his license fee right up his ass.
Translating the situation in something more concrete may help...
Posted Aug 6, 2003 9:06 UTC (Wed) by libra (guest, #2515) [Link]
We are a group of artists, and we like to create big pictures, mostly with our own drawing and painting, but sometime we add in our compositions little pictures inspired by what we find in newspapers and magazines. When our compositions are done we make copies of them and give them to our friends.We have some success with our art, and our most recent compositions can be seen in various expositions from time to time. Due to that success one day a man, who pretends to be an artist because he drawn some things for newspapers long ago, came accross one of our picture in which he said we included a little part of one of his picture, and he also said we had to pay him for that.
Of course we do not make money from out art, it is not our purpose, we just want our friends to be happy with the big colorfull pictures we make. So we can not pay him, but we proposed him to tell us what were the pictures he pretended we took from him so that we can stop using them in our future compositions, stop expose them and so that we can send our friends new compositions without those pictures to replace their old ones.
The man answered that he did not wanted to do that, he wanted us to pay him, and our friends as well. I also discovered that he was distributing copies of our art himself, even thought this copies shall certainly contain the pictures he do not want us to use.
Now we don't know what he really wants, certainly he wants some money from us, thought he hasn't prove to deserve it. Maybe he also want to sell our art alone, while we were giving it to our friends before. Maybe he also want to despair us and our friends by claiming false things.
What is sure to us is that now we have trouble because we can not easily provide new pieces of art to our friend being sure it will not claim them to contain pieces of his own pictures again. Of course we can change our art, and start doing things different, but it will take some time and it may change how people perceive our art and how they like it.
It would be easier if we were knowing what are the pictures involved. We are quite ready to clear our art of anything that shouldn't be in, but we need to know what it is to do so. Moreover we have the feeling that doing so could even be an improvement to our art without changing the core of what make it so much appreciated by others.
But as things are today we have no way to solve this problem, and by this time some people are wondering about the future of what we do and if they shall stop use our art in their house. It is great trouble to us, because the core of our art remains safe, and is still worth being know as "art", "good art" and even "our good art" so far.
Anyway we are not going to stop doing art, because it is our purpose in life to be artists, and we can not stop just because someone tries to frighten us. We just hope something fair and intelligent to happen shortly, but even if we must wait years for that to happen we will continue to create art, because we are real artists, and also because it is quite probable that by the time this man agree to precise his claims, our art will have evolved and improved so much that nothing of what we may have use of what he did will remain in our compositions.
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 9:39 UTC (Wed) by jarek (guest, #4105) [Link]
So, I refuse to pay $1399 for a binary Linux license and SCO sues me. My question is then, .... when will we go to court, after IBM or even after RedHat. When is that, 2007. How does SCO imagine to use the legal system to make people pay for something the don't own the copyright to, nor intend to prove it./jarek
the questions journalists should ask mcbride and co.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 12:06 UTC (Wed) by lyda (guest, #7429) [Link]
1. what shares and options do the executives and board own? (this might be publically available)2. in what countries do you and the other executives and board members owe residential property?
3. it is a common perception that you and your fellow executives and board members are doing this to drive up the value of your stock in order to dump and run. would you be willing to make a public and legally binding commitment to not sell your shares in scox for the next 10 years in order to prove to scox investors that you have the long term interests of scox at heart?
I hereby notify you of my $15,000 per cpu linux license
Posted Aug 6, 2003 14:50 UTC (Wed) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]
Linux contains some nearly exact code and algorithms I independently wrote in college and consulting projects back in the 80's. I am sure I was the first to write these and they obviously fall under my copyright. Linux is tainted with my intellectual property and you can all start paying me for licenses any time now.For instructions on where to send your money contact opensourcenow@redhat.com.
Have a great day :)
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU (Register)
Posted Aug 7, 2003 16:51 UTC (Thu) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]
sorry to be crude folks but it has to be said it is high time SCO were told exactly what to dowhere to do it and when to do it preferebly (SP) in full public gaze what a bunch of flippin
WA****S they are turnig out to be lets get the WHOLE Linux communitty together and once
and for all kill SCO of totaly and permanantley they don't deserve breathing space let alone
phyical space (maybe a 6`x6` padded room ) .
I for one have just about had enough of both M$ and SCO to last a life time the world would
be far better of without both of them ..
Thats my view and i am sticking to it i canned M$ years ago had a look at SCO System 5
and canned that as well follow the lead and we can not fail ...
Pete Hacked of dusty in need af a shower and hot ..