[CLUE-Talk] SCO planning to offer licensing for Linux

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:39:06 -0600
Dennis J Perkins <djperkins at americanisp.net> wrote:

> It sounds to me like SCO thinks it owns Linux.
> 
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> >Hmmm, wonder what Linux would think of this.

s/Linux/Linus/  # easy typo to make

> >http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/HNscolicense_1.html

Presumably, they're offering to license whatever of their IP is in a
distribution. I'd bet the license comes with a big NDA. The whole scheme
sounds sorta like a protection racket to me.

jed
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