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July 21, 2003
More from the Linux front
News.Com: "Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of the company's SCOsource intellectual property division, said in a statement. 'We intend to provide them with choices to help them run Linux in a legal and fully-paid for way.'".
It's very strange to hear Linux and for-pay licensing in the same breath. I guess RedHat and others are trying to sell for-pay licenses, but mostly they're charging for early access and technical support: "If you stop paying, we'll cut off your ftp account and stop responding to your emails." Here we're talking about simple permission to use executables. Breathtaking.
Update Wired quotes SCO chief executive Darl McBride: "'Take away the code in question and you're left with Linux 2.2,' McBride said."
Posted by Andrew Grumet at July 21, 2003 04:53 PM
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