The continuing saga of SCO vs. the world...
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The battle wages of SCO vs the rest of the open source community. Now Novell (who claims some Unix copyrights) is stating that SCO did not receive ownership of all UNIX technologies...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437391747.html
If you've kept up with open source news, or read /. (slashdot.org) then you're probably familiar with this battle that has been going on for almost a year. Its a battle of SCO claiming that they own ALL UNIX copyrights as well as claiming that some of Linux's kernel has stolen or borrowed code from UNIX.
So why is SCO so upset? Because they're greedy... they want everyone who runs Linux to pay them a licensing fee. I believe the workstation license was something like $699 for single processers and more than $1000 for more than one processor. If you look at their stock, you'll see where stupid non-technical stockbrokers are buying SCOX stock in the hopes that Linux will lose and SCO will be able to get millions and millions of dollars from all these freeloading Linux users...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
You will also notice that top execs in SCO are SELLING their stock at the higher price so that they can gain profit off of others. I hope these guys like sharing a cell with the Enron execs...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=SCOX
SCO has already filed lawsuits against IBM, which then provoked Red Hat to file suit against SCO. Then SCO later started going after Fortune 500 companies who run Linux, as well as other large Linux users. They've even gone after Hollywood because they use hundreds of Linux machines for animation and other graphic rendering.
Lately though, Novell has gotten into the mix with their aquisition of Suse Linux. They're also in the transition of migrating their services to run on Linux instead of Microsoft.
brenner on 01.08.04 @ 09:34 PM EST [link] [No Comments]