August 7, 2003
HAHA! HEY SCO! I'm running Linux on every system I own, including my primary computer. All of these systems are used on a daily basis. Linux powers the web server you're accessing to read this text. Guess what? I'm not going to give you a penny in bullshit "licensing fess."
I dare you to try and collect. I'll strongly encourage you to go eat a bag of hell.
For those of you who don't know what SCO is trying to do, here's a recap. SCO claims that some amount of their code and/or concepts is in the Linux kernel, and was donated to the kernel by IBM. The alleged amount of code has varied from "80 lines" to "hundreds of lines" to "thousands of lines" since this nonsense began. SCO continually refuses to identify what code was supposedly misappropriated. Now they're charging end-users $699 per CPU for licensing fees which buy, from them, the right to use Linux.
Here's an analogy. I tell you that you have something of mine in your house, and it's very valuable. Someone came to my house, took it, then put it in your house. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I demand you pay me $700 for the right to continue living in your house. Nobody believes me when I say it's there. Thousands of people have asked what it is, but I'm not telling. It's there though, in your house. I swear.
To carry the analogy into the truth, the object in question is a ceramic ashtray made and given to you by your best friend's son, and was never anywhere near the accuser's house. In fact, the accuser doesn't own a single ashtray, and doesn't even smoke.
It should be noted that SCO is a failing company that held a pathetic market and worthless stock before this circus started. Linux has stomped SCO into the ground in market share, and twisted its heel a few times. SCO can't compete on technical merit (SCO's products are utter dogshit from a technical standpoint), so they resort to litigation to make a profit. Realize that before they started throwing around lies and lawsuits in every direction, their stock price was at or below a dollar. It's up above $10 as of late, and the company executives are selling like mad.
My machines running Linux:
Let's see, that comes to what, $7000 in supposed SCO "licensing" fees? I have a thought. I'll keep running Linux on all of my boxes, and SCO can shove their licenses up its ass. Right up the ass.
Yeah.
(08:30)
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