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SCO wants 699 of your dollars

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Press Release Source: The SCO Group


SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux
Tuesday August 5, 12:43 pm ET
SCO Provides Commercial Linux Users With Run-Time, Binary License to Run SCO's Intellectual Property in Linux


LINDON, Utah, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX® operating system source code, today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux®. The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions. By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.
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SCO announced in July that it had registered the copyrights to its software releases of UNIX System V and UnixWare® with the U.S. Copyright office and that it would offer licenses to cure the SCO IP infringement issues for Linux operating systems. Beginning this week, SCO will start meeting with commercial Linux customers to present the details of this right to use SCO intellectual property binary licensing program.

"We have identified numerous files of unlicensed UNIX System V code and UNIX System V derivative code in the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the intellectual property licensing division of SCO. "We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights."

Pricing and Availability

SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. Pricing for multiple CPU systems, single CPU add-ons, desktop systems and embedded systems will also be available. Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource .

About The SCO Group

The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses with UNIX business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com .

SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.




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Linux companies unfazed.

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:roll: . Oh well, IBM has deep pockets. And should they lose, the offending code could always be stripped out.

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If I could understand any of that, I'm sure I would care.
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SCO says Linux 2.4 and up has a bunch of their code in it. Therefore, anyone using it has to pay up.
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phongn wrote:SCO says Linux 2.4 and up has a bunch of their code in it. Therefore, anyone using it has to pay up.
"Says" being the operative word. The trial hasn't even begun yet. Even if they got an injunction (which they have, I think), they can't force current Linux users to pay them the price of a decent PC. I think that SCO is seriously deluded.
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Durandal wrote:"Says" being the operative word. The trial hasn't even begun yet. Even if they got an injunction (which they have, I think), they can't force current Linux users to pay them the price of a decent PC. I think that SCO is seriously deluded.
As do I, but SCO has taken on the likes of Microsoft and won. I suppose that IBM & Co. could write up a replacement for all of the stuff in question, but it's annoying.
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Or they could buy out SCO, but not likely.

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phongn wrote:
Durandal wrote:"Says" being the operative word. The trial hasn't even begun yet. Even if they got an injunction (which they have, I think), they can't force current Linux users to pay them the price of a decent PC. I think that SCO is seriously deluded.
As do I, but SCO has taken on the likes of Microsoft and won. I suppose that IBM & Co. could write up a replacement for all of the stuff in question, but it's annoying.
While that's true, there is no legal obligation by any end user to pay jack shit to SCO, and if there is one, it won't be until 2005 or 2006 when the court actually rules on whether SCO's asinine bullshit is valid or not. Given that SCO refuses to disclose which portions of the kernel violate its IP rights (thus making it impossible to remove those portions) and just happens to want to collect license fees from every Linux user on the face of the planet who is using their allegedly copyrighted code, I don't think that any half-way competent judge would take them seriously.

SCO is simply full of hot air.
Pu-239 wrote:Or they could buy out SCO, but not likely.
Hell, Red Hat could buy SCO out if they really wanted to, but it'd be more fun to give them a legal smackdown in the courts.
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It's bullshit, of course, but SCO thinks they can cash in at least for corporations.
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Of course, if this does ever make it to trial, we better hope the jurors aren't stupid.

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Muwahaha, IBM sued back!
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