[lug] The SCO IP License.. where do I click?

Michael J. Hammel mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Wed Aug 6 09:30:41 MDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:33, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> What a freekin buzzkill. Linus has said that there are no 
> SCO IP problems. Either there are, or there aren't. It's
> getting kind of absurd; license it for 700$ per CPU. puke.

Strangely, this isn't too far off from what USL charged for PC based
distributions of the original SVR4 code.  Such pricing is what
effectively kept SVR4 off desktops in the early 90's and let Linux come
into being in the first place. 

Didn't work then.  And it won't work now.
-- 
Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>




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