Full Article [ here ]The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released Thursday show.
SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
The letter to NERSC director Horst Simon used strong language in its effort to convince the research facility to buy a license that will let it use Linux without fear of SCO legal action.
I don't really follow the whole SCO nonsense very closely, but this seems to be their dumbest move yet. Even Microsoft trys to stay in the good graces of the federal government, so what makes McBride and the rest of the SCO team think they can openly threaten them and actually get away with it? I guess the idea of getting a massive payout from the feds for all the various clusters they own was too good to pass up since it would further finance their waste of time against Linux and annoying/bullying everyone. Maybe thier next target will be NSA clusters used for whatever the NSA does in its basements?
Reply With Quote