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SCO backs off Linux invoice plan (News.com)
According to this News.com story, the SCO Group has, once again, decided that the time is not right to start sending out invoices to Linux users. "'The executives have said we haven't had to do it yet,' SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said of the invoice plan. 'They're happy with progress in the licensing program.'" Procrastinators will be happy to know that the "half price introductory period" has been extended through the end of the month.
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They won't get out of it that easily! Posted Oct 16, 2003 0:45 UTC (Thu) by jre (guest, #2807) [Link] The "licensing" plan is perhaps the most cynical and blatantly illegal act thus far by a notoriously cynical and lawless company. SCO should not be allowed to weasel out of this one.Now that Groklaw has warned SCO that a tsunami of lawsuits and criminal action will follow any mailing of invoices, SCO has lost its stomach for it, and just wants us to forget the threat was ever made. If Chris and Darl expose themselves to questions in another conference call, or if Blake Stowell gives an interview to an alert journalist, some of the following (at least) are fair game: 1) OK, Blake, why are your leaders "happy with progress in the licensing program"? What constitutes success? One company in the Pacific Northwest, perhaps? Others? Care to share some details? 2) Did the certainty of civil action, and the very real possibility of criminal action, have anything to do with the decision? 3) When do you plan to make the program more general, by sending out the promised invoices? I propose we hire a skywriter to fly over the next city in the SCO roadshow and paint "Hey DARL -- where are the invoices?" right over the convention center where their wretched little dog-and-pony takes place. Let the SCO clocks be started ticking! This is day zero of a bully's bluff being called!
SCO backs off,..., Out of existence Posted Oct 16, 2003 1:18 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] "In addition, the Lindon, Utah-based company has extended until Oct. 31 a deadline after which it planned to double prices for the Linux license"C'mon Chris, Darl and spokesman BS, dont you think that such a good product as Linux, made by some of the best programmers in the world, worths at the least the triple ?... If you gonna steal and you do it without style, those corporate fellows wont belive you! Never in the history of mankind has a "bull so weak" had so much writing and publicity as this SCO "thing" !
SCO backs off Linux invoice plan (News.com) Posted Oct 16, 2003 3:23 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] I like the way he pretends the decision is up to countless faceless"executives" and that he has no idea what is going on. I really wish someone would create a document with side-by-side quotes from the SCO guys and analysts to show how their statements are almost random and don't even try to be self-consistent.
SCO backs off Linux invoice plan (News.com) Posted Oct 16, 2003 23:28 UTC (Thu) by lvteacher (guest, #14548) [Link] I am not an attorney, but I think that the members of the Linux community should individually ask SCO to disclose to them the offending code so that the "infringements" can be corrected. If push-comes-to-shove later it may hurt SCO if it can be shown that the Linux community wanted to correct things and SCO would not cooperate.
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