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

[Dennis J Perkins]

Or their attempt to legimitize their claims.  "See, they're licensing 
from us because they know we're right."

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:39:06 -0600
>Dennis J Perkins <djperkins at americanisp.net> wrote:
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>>It sounds to me like SCO thinks it owns Linux.
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>>Jed S. Baer wrote:
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>>>Hmmm, wonder what Linux would think of this.
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>s/Linux/Linus/  # easy typo to make
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>>>http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/HNscolicense_1.html
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>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.
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>jed
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