SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems 1659
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from the bargain-basement-pricing dept.
from the bargain-basement-pricing dept.
walterbyrd quotes: "'We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights.' SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003." Update: 08/05 18:24 GMT by M : After October 15, SCO says they'll want $1399. Better buy now!
Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
Right to use SCO IP in a Linux distribution
Promotional License Fee
with 1 CPU $699
with 2 CPUs $1,149
with 4 CPUs $2,499
with 8 CPUs $4,999
Additional single CPU $749
So this puts Lawrence Livermore National Labs at around $190,751 for a 256CPU system.. of which, they have a few.. heh..
<sarcasm> Let me run out and buy some of that SCO stock!!! </sarcasm>
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Stupidity is the great constant in this universe.
One word (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't under estimate the power and strength of capitalism.
SCO: ***Read Carefully*** (Score:4, Funny)
Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
*snort*
HAAAAAhaahahahahaaa!
*tear*
Aahhh...
*wipes eyes*
Gosh, that's funny.
No, seriously, how much do they want?
-Waldo Jaquith
v2.6 is safe! (Score:5, Funny)
I have 2 lines of code which are completely indentical to 2 lines of code in 2.6. I showed it to a few people and they see that what I am saying is true! Just because they are reporters and not programmers is irrelevant.
I would love to have the ability to show these in court but I am too busy with watching the stock tickers.
If you have any questions, feel free to send a check or money order to the P.O. box below (located in a UPS Store).
Remember, complete use of Linux for only $6.99, and no, I will not cover you if SCO sues you.
This is great (Score:1, Funny)
Why couldn't they have done us all a favor? (Score:5, Funny)
$666
which would have made everything so clear? I mean it's only $33 difference. I hope when you buy these licenses you get a free T-Shirt with "Sucker!" in large letters on the front.
SCO needs to put up or shut up. If they think they have IP in Linux then show us. Dammit if the code is already in Linux it's already public so point to the code.
John.
Get Ready (Score:4, Funny)
Solomon
Tell you what SCO. (Score:5, Funny)
I've already paid... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One word (Score:2, Funny)
Domain names still available (Score:5, Funny)
darlmcbridesucks.com
I haven't got enough time but I'll be happy to paypal someone $50 to set up a nice site with a messageboard... c'mon.
I have a deal for you too (Score:5, Funny)
Well, OK, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Investors ... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear SCO. (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you for the good laugh this afternoon. Our network administrator actually wet his pants, while the rest of us were in such hysterics and tears that work became all but unmanageable. I don't get all the bad press about you guys... I think you've got a great sense of humor.
Sincerely,
LinuxCorp.
Re:Tell you what SCO. (Score:4, Funny)
Tell me Mr Mongoose, What use is a Linux Kernel if you cannot code?
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:v2.6 is safe! (Score:3, Funny)
Line one:
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Line two:
};
I think I'll ask $500/infringement.
if a tree falls... (Score:2, Funny)
oh, so that's the noise 1 million eyeballs make as they roll back...
Re:Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
*snort*
At first I thought this was a description of what SCO was doing when they started this.
Michael Corleone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:*sigh* SCO killing Linux in my co. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
I don't have to pay.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Exactly which lines did I comment out?" you ask. That's *my* trade secret.
But I did manage to get all of the infringing lines SCO disclosed."
Re:SCO: Looking Good (Score:4, Funny)
Geez, Anonymous, I've seen you make some damn silly posts but this one tops 'em all.
The stock market is always right?!? Sure, like when it sent Enron stock over $80/share? What's it worth now?
Right. Now crawl back under your rock.
Re:I have a deal for you too (Score:3, Funny)
I own a copyright on some of the boilerplate included in the SCO Linux IP License. Feel free to use Linux, but if you buy the SCO License, then you're infringing on my copyright.
I'll license you the ability to use SCO's Linux IP License for the small, one time fee of $15,000. Per user.
Re:SCO: ***Read Carefully*** (Score:2, Funny)
One Hundred BILLION DOLLARS (Score:2, Funny)
"That's a number. Okay then. We hold the world ransom for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!"
Hmm Hmm Ha Ha Ha!!!
Don't Poke the Penguin (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Investors ... (Score:2, Funny)
Look at their chart [yahoo.com] Shows a definite increase since they started talking trash in March. I've already complained to the SEC regarding their pump and dump tactics. I only wish I owned their stock so I could join a stock holders lawsuit against them.
Oh and btw, I'm offering to any SCO VP, Director and board member a license for a mere $2250 per license. What's it for? You must sign my NDA to find out.
Sorry but the offer only available to SCO employees.
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
"Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource ."
I plan to make several anonymous calls to SCO, asking them exactly which of Mr. McBride's orfices he would like his money in. I plan to pay in small bills, all folded until they're nothing but sharp little corners. Who's with me?!
New Slogan (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Domain names still available (Score:5, Funny)
I'll have a forum set up on it later tonight or tomorrow.
I got it for a year, hopefully in a year's time this will all be ancient history
Other SCO numbers (Score:2, Funny)
> Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site
I call them "455-4013".
I think "347-5417" might be relevant as well.
Darl the Angry Drunk (Score:2, Funny)
And I want $500 from each of you... (Score:1, Funny)
However, due to an ongoing lawsuit I am going to lose, I can't show you exactly what bits of the 'breathing' technique I have rights to, so you should all consider yourselves liable.
Linux is finaly warez!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Michael Corleone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Too much crack! (Score:3, Funny)
No, five words! (Score:4, Funny)
(No, five words!)
BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!
(Three, Sir!)
TONGUE MY LOINS!
This is Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Dual 2ghz g5, $2999 w/ OS X
A dual ghz machine will cost the linux guys $2800 in the OS alone after October 15th!
*cackles manically* Ahhh revenge for the Mac community!
p.s. -- Yes this is a joke... don't flame me.
SCO increasing fees (Score:5, Funny)
After October 15, SCO says they'll want $1399.
After October 20, SCO says they'll want $49999.
After October 25, SCO says they'll want three billion.
SCO will release October and November prices after they contract a mathematician to construct new super exponential and trans-finite numbering systems.
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Re:I've already paid... (Score:5, Funny)
For that matter, my company has already paid by my reading all the /. articles about this frivolous suit by SCO on company time...
Re:Tell you what SCO. (Score:5, Funny)
SCO--We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start. All that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known IP rights violator to justice.
Linux Users--Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about I give you the finger [gives SCO the finger] and you give me my kernel.
Shamelessly ripped from the Matrix. Thank you.
caldera (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?ED
Re:Why couldn't they have done us all a favor? (Score:4, Funny)
"I bought a license from SCO and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"
Re:Give em a call! (Score:1, Funny)
excellent (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Investors ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
Legal fund to put Darl's ass in jail: $1,000,000
Sending Darl an extra slippery soap: Priceless.
Re:What is capitalism? (Score:1, Funny)
Soooo... Whaddoya bench?
Refund? (Score:1, Funny)
Did I miss something (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
Linux Customer: "I would, very much, like to pay in buckets of poop."
SCO Rep: "Buckets of what?"
Linux Customer: "Buckets of poop, Sir. I would be delighted to top off your 'full of Shit' meter. It will, of course, be the poop of the highest standard. Eat it with a silver spoon, you can."
fin
Re:Too much crack! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Investors ... (Score:3, Funny)
No! (Score:5, Funny)
And several fresh dead fish, right around his crotch region.
I for one... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm just glad I had the foresight, (blind luck), to have added the 'Lgo' to the end of my username. I don't think I could stand the slashdot backlash if I hadn't...
Re:Investors ... (Score:2, Funny)
SCO Logo (Score:3, Funny)
Better Deal IFF they win: FreeBSD (Score:5, Funny)
In the unlikely chance that SCO wins before I win the lottery or am struck by lightning, I'll just be redeploying with a BSD instead of SCO.
And if they go after BSD, I'll shift to Plan9 or QNX rather than giving one thin dime to the leeches running SCO.
Should those get nailed, GNU should finally have a decent "Hurd" kernel running by then (15-20 years of lawsuits.)
congratulations! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll be rich! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too much crack! (Score:5, Funny)
I think instead I'll just send SCO 1 copy of a picture of my middle finger for every processor I have that Linux is running on and call it even.
Re:Too much crack! (Score:3, Funny)
I think you mean SCrOtum
Re:Get Ready (Score:3, Funny)
That's what I thought.
Where's my Monopoly money.... (Score:5, Funny)
What they heck do they think they own... Boardwalk? That's just crazy.
good luck! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SCO vs the World: Next at bat GNU (Score:1, Funny)
SCO:
RMS:
Re:Too much crack! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, man that's painful. But how did you get a deer down there to begin with?
Re:Michael Corleone (Score:2, Funny)
Excellent quote, but you've got to give the next line:
Once again, Billy Connolly said it best... (Score:2, Funny)
Linux is Dead (Score:2, Funny)
Long live BSD!!!!!!!
Re:This can't be legal . . . can it? (Score:3, Funny)
no, the mob wouldn't stoop so low.
So be carefull, Insulting a mob boss has never been, shall we say, a long term endeavor.
Re:Too much crack! (Score:2, Funny)
Let's send them some cheques! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Michael Corleone (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, why kill your own? Better use Clippy.
Hello Mountian Home AFB? (Score:5, Funny)
SCO:We here you have been adding code to Linux and have even used it in house. We have a large bill for you that you have to pay or we will sue you.
NSA:That is very interesting we will give you our answer in about an hour. CLICK
Mountain Home AFB: Mountian Home Air Force Base how can I help you?
NSA: This is the NSA we have a terrorist take over in Utah.
Mountian Home AFB: Is it SCO?
NSA: Yes have you already heard?
Mountian Home AFB: Yea they have already called the Army to try and bill them. They even called some of the Oil Companies and that got the White House involved.
NSA: So you have already tasked a strike mission?
Mountian Home AFB: No need. They also sent a bill to Disney! They will never know what hit them. Have a nice day.
Casino Entertaining (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is capitalism? (Score:3, Funny)
It was a very strong individual indeed that modded this insightful.
Re:Investors ... (Score:1, Funny)
So this pricing scheme... (Score:2, Funny)
so? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm joking. I swear. Really.
Re:What is capitalism? (Score:1, Funny)
For example, there was one particularly interesting post I saw recently which used a variety of statistical methods to estimate the market share of the various BSDs. One of their sources was the latest netcraft report. Another was comparing the number of usenet posts pertaining to each OS, and so on.
The conclusion of the piece was that BSD assuredly is dying, not just according to Kreskin, but according to many others too.
If someone is able to locate a copy of that comment and repost it here, we might just see tarius8105 having to retract his "Geez" statement of a few minutes ago.
Re:Too much crack! (Score:3, Funny)
All I know is that Mike Hunt and Hugh G. Rection are about to get themselves Linux licenses.
TheFrood
SCO: 1-800-726-8649 - Call it - often (Score:3, Funny)
Can anyone say Telephone Denial of Service attack?
Get others to help like this: [craigslist.org]
http://newyork.craigslist.org/cas/14497372.html
Re:I've already paid... (Score:3, Funny)
Send Monopoly Money! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:v2.6 is safe! (Score:2, Funny)
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
Tell SCO How Much You Love Them (Score:3, Funny)
1-800-726-8649
How many phone calls will it take to empty SCO's coffers?
Re:My Experiences... (Score:2, Funny)
I have a huge amount of money sitting in my Nigerian bank account which needs to be taken out of the country. Only $699 in fees for the paperwork.
Yeah I'll buy.... (Score:1, Funny)
My turn (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No Linux Trademark recognition? (Score:1, Funny)
SCO: Umm OK how much...
Linus: $1 Billion U.S. Dollars... BWA HAHAHAHAHA