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This is insane

You Linux types know that Caldera, an ex-Linux vendor, bought the rights to the Unix source code from SCO, changed its name to SCO and started demanding licensing fees from Linux users (not vendors) with deep pockets.

Microsoft was the first to pay up.

They've "suspended" SGI and IBM's Unix licenses (both companies, as well as Novell—who owned the source code at the time and sold said licences—say that's not possible). There's legal action between them, IBM and Red Hat. And in the middle of this, they got $50 mil is private equity funding, showed heir first profit (due to the Microsoft license) and …remember this…told the SEC their business model would be to profit from licensing their intellectual property.

I read this morning on Slashdot that SCO will be giving people financial incentives to move from Linux to a proprietary OS with a "stronger IP basis."

Most likely Windows.

Check the article at Computer Business News Online

Of course, it's not insane. Windows STILL isn't the mission critical OS for major corporations, it's the cost efficient on for small to mid-sized ones. I don't know the details of the licensing agreement SCO has with MS, but no matter what it's more than they made from Linux…now it's more than they ever will make from Linux. And if folks are driven back to Unix they win that way too.

Only the evidence is they have no case. And they can't offer incentives for Windows large enough to compete with free.