Recent SCO/Linux News

Sheesh: "criminal"? Just a bit too extreme, I think.

From: Scott <scott@tiktok.demon.c.u.o.t.s.a>
Subject: SCO's criminal activities continue...
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:35:50 +0100

Despite supplying absolutely no proof for its claims of IP theft, SCO
attempt to defraud companies across the US by demanding money with
menaces. Are there no depths to which this bunch will not sink?

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143376

SCO bills first 1,000 Linux users
By Peter Williams [03-09-2003]
Failure to pay will lead to court battle

 
 

SCO will start invoicing Linux users in the next two months, with the
first batch of bills being sent to around 1,000 US users. 
Failure to pay under the highly controversial UnixWare licensing
scheme, which was introduced for Linux users in July, is likely to
result in legal action, the company warned. 

Blake Stowell, director of public relations at SCO, told vnunet.com:
"A large number of commercial Linux users could begin receiving
[invoices] in the next month or two. 

"I would say that a batch in the neighbourhood of 1,000 or so would go
out." 

Companies based in the UK and Europe will not be in the first wave,
with SCO concentrating on US corporates. 

But Stowell added: "Sooner or later the invoicing will reach European
companies I'm sure. We will not be limiting this to a US only market."

Stowell estimated that there are some 2.5 million servers running a
version of Linux based on the 2.4 kernel, the owners of which could
receive an invoice. 

SCO claims these users require a licence because there is SCO-owned
Unix code in the Linux kernel. 

"Companies that refuse to pay the invoice may need to have this
resolved through the courts, which we're very willing to do. But our
hope is that we never have to take that step," said Stowell.

"SCO has to protect its copyrights and, if we have to use the courts
to enforce those, we certainly will."

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