What Time Is It At SCO?
A member of the Radar team, typing on his iPhone, just wrote me that he was at SCO when in fact he was at SFO. That amusing typo made me wonder what SCO, which attempted to convince courts that it owned the unownable, was up to now, in its Chapter 11 iteration.
As Tim wrote here more than two years ago, SCO "used a lightning strike that was both heavy-handed and underhanded to try to leverage its power ... but ultimately the open-source community will prevail. Paris killed Achilles, remember, but Troy still lost." (I'm a sucker for Homer references.) So, what is the big news nowadays, according to the SCO website? It's a daylight savings time patch! And, in keeping with the company's apparent new belief in open source, it's free!

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Well, more interesting is http://www.sco.com/licensing/
On-Line End User License Agreements: English or PDF version
They have EULA in English and Pdfish ;)
"A member of the Radar team, typing on his iPhone..."
who the hell cares what he was typing on? wow he has an iphone.. GET OVER IT.
The iPhone reference was to highlight how typo-prone that device is, not to show off.
And the point of this article was.....? Open Source is not "free" as in "free beer"... doh!
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