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SCO demanding fees from Linux users
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:47:58 -0400
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:16:27 -0700 From: PRIVACY Forum <privacy () vortex com> Subject: SCO demanding fees from Linux users To: dave () farber net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=7.5 tests=MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2 version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Filtered-At: eList eXpress <http://www.elistx.com/> < NOT FOR IP > SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users Otherwise, SCO said, companies could be in legal hot water By TODD R. WEISS JULY 21, 2003 Content Type: Story Source: Computerworld The gloves are now officially off -- all enterprise Linux users have to pay The SCO Group Inc. new licensing fees to use Linux, or they could find themselves on the wrong end of a copyright infringement lawsuit. That was the ultimatum laid out today by SCO CEO and President Darl McBride, who said that the $3 billion lawsuit against IBM in March was apparently just the start of his company's march to defend itself from what it sees as rampant theft of its Unix System V intellectual property (IP). ... http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83287,00.html ------- End of Forwarded Message
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