Instead of arguing amongst ourselves, why not taking the complaint directly to SCO? As someone on the Linux Users of Northern Illinois (LUNI) group correctly pointed out ;> ...
"From the Register article we have the number: 1-800-726-8649 where we can call and give SCO our opinions. From a pay phone (actually many, many phones), where SCO has to cough up $0.25 per call." http://luni.org/pipermail/luni/2003-August/012555.html Stef On Thursday 07 August 2003 12:24 am, Frankie wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Davidson > >Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 5:00 AM > > > >There are too many numbers running around. The $699\$1399 numbers are > >the before Oct 15/after Oct 15 price for a single-cpu server. The $199 > >number I quoted is the before Oct 15 price for a single-user desktop > >machine. See http://www.sco.com/scosource/description.html They do > >not give the after Oct 15 price for a desktop. > > > >So you can sort of pick your own amount that you're not going to > >pay. [My desktop has Apache running on it. So which would I owe if I > >were going to pay? :-) ] > > OK, will the amount I am not going to pay then is 1 cent.. they will not > get > one cent out of me... > > The reason they are doing this, is very very simple.. they have dropping > revenue > and no way to improve the situation since SCO unix is not the best choice > unix anyway. > (IBM is not complaining about AIX, neither HP about HP-UX or Sun about > solaris being made > worthless by Linux.) SCO just don't have anything else thats making money > and they had to do something to stop their shareprice going down the > toilet. > > The only way to make the company of interest to the shareholders is to > engage in legal action. > As for charging for linux, well they are furthering the scare tactics, > trying to show how "Serious" they are.. > They might even scare a few away from linux or to buy a license... > > Problem is that anyone that pays it, can sue them later if they are found > to have no case. > > I think that its a safe bet that SCO won't be part of the IT industry's > future, they have burnt every bridge accept M$ and M$ doesn't want Unix > around either. > > I think IBM and Novell should get together and counter sue SCO for making > unproven claims and trying to extort their linux clients. Have SCO barred > from making such claims till its proven in court. In other words, "put up > or shut up!" IBM and Novell can also sue that their linux business has been > hurt by SCO's unproven claims and sue for damages. > > I am surprised at how little action has been taken in the US to counter > this.. they should be following the Europeans and have it ruled that SCO > must prove their claims before being able to try to extort customers. > > > rgds > > Franki
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