SCO license currently for biggest users only (IDG)

Posted Oct 22, 2003 19:52 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: SCO license currently for biggest users only (IDG)

"I think the chances of collecting from small businesses are very small, because they have very little to lose," he said. "They don't necessarily know whether they have SCO or Linux. The only time they care about their computer is when it crashes."

These are the words of a SCO reseller, who really understands small-business users and how they perceive their computers.

Would you buy a product from this person?

SCO license currently for biggest users only (IDG)

Posted Oct 22, 2003 20:07 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe.. because he is honest. Having gone and set up computers for a lot of small shops.. he is correct. The people consider it to be like the family sedan. They only worry about it when the oil light comes on.

SCO license currently for biggest users only (IDG)

Posted Oct 22, 2003 21:56 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

"They don't necessarily know whether they have SCO or Linux"

That guy is being a little dishonest, or did not applyed a real happy phrasing. I belive he wanted to tell that users dont really now if there is SCO IP in Linux or not,...
But being a reseller he himself should now better, and he is showing "stupid incompetence" at least, because selling a licence for something that is plenty known to be "yet"(and forever) free TODAY(22/10/2003), only on base of SCO future guarantee, even in the surreal case of SCO being given right tomorrow, is a fraud...
... or than he is delibaretely being dishonest and should be arrested!