SCO is already pricing licenses...
If SCO wins their lawsuit against IBM, you may need to purchase additional licenses for every copy of Linux installed. SCO is offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. After October 15, SCO says they'll want $1399.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html
The chance of them winning the suit is small, but the cost of violating the license will be high.
Get your linux licence for $1399 and if you order now only $699
I know this has been posted before, sorry !!
But AO won't allow me to delete the thread !!
Gives me a "Can not find server" error !!
LMFAO @ SCO
the latest news: The text of SCO's "Linux license"
Quote:
This Agreement does not grant a right to receive any
distribution of software from SCO. SCO grants Company a limited and
non-exclusive right to SCO Product under the terms and conditions of
this Agreement. Company acknowledges that it is not granted any other
right except for the rights specifically set forth herein.
it gets worse
Quote:
Should Company require to add additional right-to-use licenses
for Linux Systems or additional CPUs, Company shall submit a purchase
order to, and subject to acceptance by, SCO's Sales Administration
Department located at SCO's Santa Cruz, California facility. Such
purchase orders shall state the Linux System details and License Fees
included in Exhibit A of this Agreement and shall reference and bind
Company to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
and even worse
Quote:
Company shall keep full, clear and accurate records with respect
to Linux Systems and the number of licensed CPUs per Linux Systems.
Such records shall contain all information necessary to determine
exactly all fees due hereunder. Company shall provide to SCO, upon
request by SCO, reports with such records including the number of copies
of made by Company.
what do you guys/gals think of the implications of this..
also read this: SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU
Quote:
"Clearly, it's at a point and time where we are going to take matters into our own hands and move forward," McBride said. "It's time to start marching onward again with our legal claims."
McBride enjoys referring to Linux users as a "tainted" bunch. He seems to see them as some group of unbathed mongrels that that covet other peoples' intellectual property for their coding pig-pens.
This really isn't the nicest language to use for such an amicable crew, especially when SCO's real beef is with IBM and Red Hat. But SCO claims that IBM and Red Hat are the ones that forced it to put the blame on Linux users. Since IBM and Red Hat won't rush to the Linux community's rescue and hand over millions for unproven claims, SCO must attack the little guys.
well the $1399 will be starting october 15th till then it'll be $699 per CPU !!
but still.. as soon as this happens I'll switch to BSD !!
SCO wants to charge $699 a Linux seat
But it'll be more if you don't snap up the offer
By INQUIRER staff: dinsdag 05 augustus 2003, 19:54
THE BATTLE OF words resumed today when SCO detailed its plans for making Linux users pay to use software for which it claims intellectual property rights.
Up until mid-October, SCO says it will charge $699 per seat and that's how it claims people will avoid breaching the intellectual property rights it claims it owns in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels.
After that date, if you don't take advantage of this startlingly generous offer, you'll have to pay $1,399.
SCO said that it believed Linux customers would want to "properly license SCO's IP" if they're running Linux 2.4 kernel and later.
Further, claims SCO in a burst of largesse, it also means that customers can continue to use binary Linux without violating its intellectual property rights.
It has also made available prices for multiple CPUs, single CPU add ons and others, it said.
They are for two CPUs, $1,149, for four CPUs $2,499 and for eight CPUs $4,999. Each additional single CPU will be $749, while a promotional licence fee for embedded devices is $32 per device.
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Took this article from >> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10873
Years back SCO gave us linux and linux code with a GPL license, and now they want
to cash just like Microsoft.
I hope they are going to lose this case. Luckily Red Hat and IBM are fighting too. (see below).
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Press Release Source: SCO Group, Inc.
Statement Regarding Red Hat Lawsuit and Letters to Red Hat
Monday August 4, 6:46 pm ET
LINDON, Utah, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is being issued by The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News):
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLOGO )
SCO has consistently stated that our UNIX System V source code and
derivative UNIX code have been misappropriated into Linux 2.4 and 2.5
kernels. We have been showing a portion of this code since early June.
SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end
users. We have been educating end users on the risks of running an
operating system that is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX. Linux
includes source code that is a verbatim copy of UNIX and carries with it
no warranty or indemnification. SCO's claims are true and we look
forward to proving them in court.
Recent correspondence from SCO to Red Hat further explains SCO's
position.
The first letter is from Bob Bench, CFO of The SCO Group, Inc., to Mark
Webbink, Sr. Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., that
SCO intended to send to Red Hat. After a conversation between Matthew
Szulik and Darl McBride, Red Hat determined that SCO did not need to send
this letter.
The second letter is one that was sent to Matthew Szulik today from Darl
McBride after Red Hat's lawsuit was filed.
July 31, 2003
Mark Webbink, Esq.
Sr. Vice President and General Counsel
RED HAT, INC.
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
VIA FACSIMILE: (919) 754-3700
Dear Mr. Webbink:
This letter is in response to yours of July 18, 2003 to Darl McBride,
President and CEO of The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO").
Before responding to your request, it is important to place your letter
in context. Your letter follows on the heels of Red Hat's S-3 filing of
July 7, 2003, in which your company revised its risk disclosure
statement.[1] In addition, SCO is currently engaged in litigation with
International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") regarding its role in
the development of the Linux operating system. At the time of your
letter, we had expected the possibility of a global resolution of SCO's
intellectual property claims against all Linux-related companies that
would have likely included Red Hat. This effort has apparently stalled,
through no fault of SCO.
Based on the posture of our litigation and your revised risk disclosures,
it is unclear to us the purpose of your July 18, 2003 letter. If you
desire to enter good faith discussions to address SCO's intellectual
property claims against Linux, either on behalf of a wider consortium of
Linux companies or solely on behalf of Red Hat, we are willing to meet
with you for that purpose. In any such meeting, we will provide example
after example of infringement of our intellectual property found in
Linux. Of course, any such demonstration must be pursuant to an
acceptable confidentiality agreement and must be intended to further good
faith discussions about resolving the differences between us.
If you seek information for the purpose of informal discovery intended to
benefit IBM in the pending litigation, or for the purpose of devising
your own litigation plans against SCO related to Linux, we must
respectfully decline your request. Therefore, please clarify in writing
the purpose for your request. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Bench
Chief Financial Officer
The SCO Group, Inc.
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[1] Red Hat states in the revised disclosure that it is "vulnerable to
claims that [its] products infringe third-party intellectual property
rights particularly because [its] products are comprised of distinct
software components many of which are developed by independent
parties." The revised risk disclosure continues: "[M]uch of the code
in [Red Hat's] products is developed by independent parties over whom
we exercise no supervision or control ... [and Red Hat's] lack of
access to unpublished software patent applications, copyright
registrations which fail to adequately disclose source code, and
numerous issued software patents that are of dubious validity ...
Claims of infringement could require us to seek to obtain licenses
from third parties in order to continue offering our products, to
reengineer our products, or to discontinue the sale of our products
in the event reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely
basis."
August 4, 2003
Matthew J. Szulik
CEO
RED HAT, INC.
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
Dear Matthew,
Attached is the letter I discussed with you during our July 31, 2003
telephone conversation. Instead of actually sending the letter, I
thought it was best to telephone you and speak in person to see if we
could resolve the issues between our companies short of litigation. We
left the conversation with a preliminary agreement to meet and continue
our discussions further.
To my surprise, I just discovered that your company filed legal action
against The SCO Group earlier today. You, of course, mentioned nothing
of this during our telephone conversation. I am disappointed that you
were not more forthcoming about your intentions. I am also disappointed
that you have chosen litigation rather than good faith discussions with
SCO about the problems inherent in Linux.
Of course, we will prepare our legal response as required by your
complaint. Be advised that our response will likely include
counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy.
I must say that your decision to file legal action does not seem
conducive to the long-term survivability of Linux.
Yours truly
Darl C. McBride
President & CEO
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Took this article from >> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030804/lam110_1.html
We shall see and hope that SCO is going to lose this case.
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See the IBM article on >> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959...129TX1K0000531
