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SCO Preparing Legal Action Against Customer

By Matthew Aslett

SCO Group Inc is preparing to take a Linux user to court to speed up the legal process in its claim Unix code has been illegally copied into Linux, and also encourage Linux users to take out a license for its intellectual property.

The company has signed one large customer up to its Intellectual Property License for Linux, but faces opposition from many more who believe SCO must prove its claims in a court of law before they will hand over the $700 per CPU for the license.

Speaking at SCO's Forum event in Las Vegas, president and CEO Darl McBride said SCO preparing to speed-up the legal process and convince the skeptics. "We are prepared to have this heard on a quicker basis in a customer environment if that's what it takes to quicken it up," he said.

I thought Linux was freebased software... I mean you can get the OS free from RedHat and other sites..

700.00 for a single license... making micro$oft look better and better all the time.

Sorry... not freebased... opensource.

Anyone who pays this is stupid. SCO is in it's death throws, and so they apparently took a que from Acacia and decided adding lawyers to staff was a good idea.

Keep up on Slashdot.org, yesterday SCO showed just a couple of the "millions and millions" of infringing lines of code. What they didn't research was whether that code had been released to the public domain prior to their aquisition of the license, and it had been.

And if you're honestly concerned about it, install FreeBSD.

Ever hear of Seux... or however it is spelled.. I have a copy of that... a friend gave it to me and said it was free like the rest.. but I have not installed it on anything yet... he says it's better than RedHats version of Linux.

FreeBSD.... is it really free? Can you run windoes based programs on it? I want a Mac... but all my software is for PC so I have not made the move yet... cannot afford to buy all new software.

They tried to take IBM to court, but they told SCO to :321GFY

So now IBM take SCO to court. "They failed to make their business a succes and as an emergency action they try to fright people claming they are using intellectual property, but SCO has no rights to claim because of the General Public Licence model."

Sorry for my bad English...

This is like the ACASIA case.

Apparently there is infriging code in Linux, but until SCO releases the lines code, it will be hard to determine where that code came from..

And by the way, FreeBSD does not support as many peripherals as Linux does therefore it is not quite ready for widespread desktop use.

but freebsd is more stabe and secure than linux :)

$700 per CPU? Who do they think they are, Adobe?
"You must pay 6 times as much for our software, even though there are other programs much cheaper and just as good. Call it bragging rights."

NB,

FreeBSD is really free... its "freeer" than linux is really looking at stuff like RedHat's or SuSE's Server Versions of their distribution which cost over $700...

No such thing on *BSD

FreeBSD can run 99% of the apps Linux can run.

As far as Windows apps go, I have never tested Windows Emulators on FreeBSD, but they exist.

You mentioned Mac. OSX is based on NeXT, which is/was a *BSD system. Its networking core is mostly FreeBSD I think, but as far as I know many other *BSDs use that too.

There are special Windows emulators for OSX, but again, never tested them.

Ok... so these programs are NOT free? hmmm.. I was able to download RedHat from their site... maybe not the pro version... but the ful OS fir free... can I not use it?

SuSE I am not sure of because I have never heard of that one before.. but my friend tells me it's free like RedHat... Good thing I never installed either...

Would like to get another box and try them though... Would be nice to get away from the windoes system I hate Micro$oft... ok... maybe not hate... but I want something better...