[ale] SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux (fwd)

[Pete Hardie]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> What baffoons.  I wonder what it's like to walk aound knowing that 
> you're universally disdained.
> 
> $700/cpu?!  They are evidently pretty proud of whatever idea they had.  
> This is where the IP nuts get me going.  They have one idea, however 
> long ago, and they want to make their living on that one thought for 
> years afterward.  GREED.


It should backfire.  Whatever copyrighted material they might have in the 
kernel, it is a fraction of a percent of the whole thing - and that whole thing 
sells for $50 from Redhat, which includes a service contract.  So there is no 
way that any rational judge would agree that suddenly a linux installation is 
priced $1500.


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