Lately I hear about SCO offering "protection" to Linux customers and it reminds me of gangs offering protection to small businesses in the local area. I can picture SCO making site visits to IBM customers and Linux customers and sending out the big rough guy and the small, smart guy, who confront the sysadmin in
the server room. BIG GUY: Nice webserver you got there. (starts thumping the computer casing) Be a shame if anything would happen to it. Be a shame if there was any (dramatic pause) unlicensed intellectual property inside. SMALL GUY: Harry, please! I'm sure we can come to an agreeable arrangement here. Did you bring the Unixware licenses with you? BIG GUY: (stops thumping) Sure did boss. SMALL GUY: (producing a pen and some documents) Then I'm sure we don't have to take up too much more of Mr Johnson's valuable time... Actually the whole SCO thing is a terrible misunderstanding. Someone at SCO was reading some Linux information which said that Linux had a Unix IP stack and misread it as meaning that there was a stack of Unix IP in Linux. Stuart. http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
