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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: suselinux on 7 August 2003, 06:18

Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: suselinux on 7 August 2003, 06:18
web page (http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030806S0025)


After IBM, large businesses using Linux servers are SCO's first target. The company sent letters to about 1,500 large companies it believes could be running such servers. Through October, it will charge them $699 for rights to its Unix code for each single-CPU Linux server they operate, after that charge double.

In a less well-publicized part of the company's licensing terms, announced Tuesday (August 5), SCO said it will charge OEMs $32 per unit for each embedded Linux device they own.

The $32 fee applies to any embedded system regardless of whether it is a Tivo set-top box which uses embedded Linux or some models of the Sharp Zaurus which also use that kernel.
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 7 August 2003, 14:57
Thank goodness only rich snobs have tivo.
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: Faust on 7 August 2003, 21:59
And who is it who keeps talking about spending more for slight improvements being a good thing?  :D   :D   :D
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: Annorax on 10 August 2003, 12:07
Fuck SCO. Fuck them up the ass. With a sandpaper condom.
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: wargames_guru on 11 August 2003, 07:53
well, I was triple booting with, 98se, slack 8.1, and Caldera workstation.....but I deleted caldera partitions without a second thought, and tossed the CD into the local wood chipper.......LOL....so SCO owes me 40 cents for the gas it took to shred the CD.  :D
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: hm_murdock on 11 August 2003, 15:16
SCO? check out my sig
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 11 August 2003, 16:51
That is a nice sig.
Title: Anyone own a TiVo cuz you owe SCO $32
Post by: TheQuirk on 11 August 2003, 20:21
quote:
Originally posted by wargames_guru:
well, I was triple booting with, 98se, slack 8.1, and Caldera workstation.....but I deleted caldera partitions without a second thought, and tossed the CD into the local wood chipper.......LOL....so SCO owes me 40 cents for the gas it took to shred the CD.   :D  


Why would they owe you fourty cents? They didn't steal fourty-cent's worth of gas from you.