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Linux users face licence cash call (BBC News)

Linux users face licence cash call (BBC News)

Posted Jan 16, 2004 20:45 UTC (Fri) by mgrinder (guest, #4202)
Parent article: Linux users face licence cash call (BBC News)

The author of this piece obviously didn't do much research since SCO is referred to as a California-based company.


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Linux users face licence cash call (BBC News)

Posted Jan 16, 2004 21:06 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I submitted some feedback to them suggesting that they place groklaw.net on their list of associated links, and that they use a little more journalistic scrutiny on the SCO stories, since SCO is so richly deserving of such scrutiny of its trade practices. We'll see if they start smelling the... well, I was going to say 'coffee', but I think 'barnyard effluent' might be a better term. ;-)

California based company

Posted Jan 17, 2004 4:22 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

SCO used to mean Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz is in California. That must have confused the author.

California based company

Posted Jan 19, 2004 19:16 UTC (Mon) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

And they've now updated the article to read "US company" instead. Unfortunately, that looks like the only change that they've made.

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