SCO demanding fees from Linux users

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:16:27 -0700
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> SCO wants licensing fees from corporate Linux users
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> Otherwise, SCO said, companies could be in legal hot water
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> By TODD R. WEISS
> JULY 21, 2003
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> Content Type: Story
> Source: Computerworld
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83287,00.html
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