The challenge of buying a license from SCO

Posted Sep 5, 2003 21:26 UTC (Fri) by s_cargo (guest, #10473)
Parent article: The challenge of buying a license from SCO

for two weeks my business was probably using copyrighted software without a license

Even in satire, I think we should avoid contributing to a common misconception that GNU/Linux is somehow NOT copyrighted nor licensed. It is very much copyrighted and is covered by a license.

The challenge of buying a license from SCO

Posted Sep 6, 2003 6:05 UTC (Sat) by ErichTheWebGuy (guest, #14875) [Link]

Yeah, agreed. I have run into a few newbies that are under the impression that they can do whatever they want to with it since there "is no license" and "I *own* it, right? I mean I got the code and everything..."

The challenge of buying a license from SCO

Posted Sep 6, 2003 8:31 UTC (Sat) by namaseit (guest, #13940) [Link]

Whoa, i smell a troll.

The challenge of buying a license from SCO

Posted Sep 6, 2003 8:33 UTC (Sat) by namaseit (guest, #13940) [Link]

Oh nm, i misunderstood your saying. I was looking at it from the perception that
you were agreeing with SCO. :-)