On Thursday 09 October 2003 10:57 am, M. Drew Streib wrote: > SCO Woes III: 6 weeks later. I still can't buy a license from SCO. > by Drew > > It has been six weeks since my initial contact with SCO regarding > getting a license for my Linux appliance server business, and SCO's > apathy towards the sale is as great as it ever was. If I didn't know > any better, I'd say their sales department now has a well orchestrated > circle of runarounds to keep you from actually pinning anybody down. > > I left off my last letter in this series with a phone call to my > friendly sales rep who had promised to call me back within days. > > I never received a call back from that rep, and left them a couple > more friendly messages asking for information to no avail. > > Feeling left out in the cold, I called the SCO main sales line and > asked to be routed to a sales person who could help me with buying > Linux server licenses. I was routed to a regional sales rep, whose > voicemail got a polite request for information, again with no > response. > > I called the main SCO sales line again and told them that I _really_ > needed to talk to someone about a sale, as I was ready to purchase, > and couldn't find anyone to take my money. I was routed to _another_ > sales rep in my area, and since he was of course not immediately > available, I left another voicemail. This one at least called back. He > didn't have any Linux license information for me, but took my > questions (including "how can I buy this now?") and promised me a > callback. Sound familiar? > > I didn't receive a callback with any answers, but I did receive an > email from this new rep telling me that the _original_ person I had > talked to would be contacting me within a couple days with answers. > > It has been 6 days since my latest broken promise from SCO, and I'm > really not wondering why they are a doomed company, with the way they > treat their potential customers. > > Once again, I have called that original SCO rep and requested > information and a followup on my original questions. This was all on > voicemail of course, since actually getting a SCO rep on the phone is > apparently a task worthy of a congressional medal. > > I have a request of Linux (or really any) news organizations. Find two > or three of your best reporters and have them try, in the nicest way > possible, to buy a Linux license from SCO. I'm having absolutely > terrible luck, despite my most gracious attempts, to throw money at > SCO (in return, of course, for the famed license). > > I can't believe that a sales force is this incompetent, or instead of > that possibility, that SCO could be so blatantly outright in their > lying about license availability. > > Darl, reading this? Sell me a license. If it is in fact available, > fire your sales force for incompetence. > > -drew
Hasn't it occurred to you that they don't want to sell you a license because if their IP claims are proven false... they could be charged with fraud?? It's just more smoke and mirrors. And the news media could try buy a license, but they could more easily try to find someone who has a license. In fact, next time you're on the phone, why don't you ask them to point you to a license holder. (but they will claim they can't because a privacy... and I can understand that if in fact they have sold a license) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 10/09/03 12:19 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Rubber bands have snappy endings!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
