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SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:30 UTC (Fri) by sethg (guest, #14970)
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

The simple thing we would like to see going forward is that there's a business model around Linux that allows companies like ours to be able to get compensation when their IP is showing up inside Linux.
Translation: "Now that Linux is so popular and our own products are tanking, we're looking for a way to extract as much rent as possible from every Linux distributor that might be unwittingly distributing our intellectual property."


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