Si Veteran Posted March 20, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2004 The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released Thursday show. http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5176308.html :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenNT Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 there pushing there luck, 2 federal companys? I wonder what the federal goverment thinks of this? also it's rather ironic that the sco family of websites appears to be running LINUX acording to netcraft. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[bear] Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 The court hasn't even decided if linux is using UNIX code yet.. how can they go about threatening consumers haha.. sounds like they are just crying now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 It doesn't even matter. The SCO and IBM are going to be tied up in court for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 also it's rather ironic that the sco family of websites appears to be running LINUX acording to netcraft. well, not really, 'cuase according to them, they own part of it :p Anyway, I'm just lucky SCO doesn't know about my own linux cluster... I did the math, and the licenses would cost me well over $1,000 dollars. :blink: :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 well, not really, 'cuase according to them, they own part of it :p Anyway, I'm just lucky SCO doesn't know about my own linux cluster... I did the math, and the licenses would cost me well over $1,000 dollars. :blink: :wacko: They have to use Linux for their servers because the Unix ones can't handle a little DOS attack. Go Unix!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 I'm just lucky SCO doesn't know about my own linux cluster... I did the math, and the licenses would cost me well over $1,000 dollars. You'd actually pay if they asked you to? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 You'd actually pay if they asked you to? :huh: I wouldn't...hey, what part of Maine are you from? I was born in Caribou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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