Author: Craig White Date: Subject: SCO vs Everyone Else : Some new news links
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 00:03, MCR wrote: > I kind of found it unnerving to find out that some
> companies are paying for the liscense. It seems
> atleast they should wait to see what happens with the
> law suit. This makes me feel like they are even more
> of an extorionist. Once the SCO gets smashed by this
> lawsuit I sure that company turns around and sue's SCO
> for their liscense fee back.
> ------
it would be standard practice for them to include language that would
specifically prohibit them from doing that in the license.
some view the paying of the license fees pragmatically - as in it will
cost me less to pay the license fee than to pay the lawyers to fight it.
Others - i.e., Red Hat view it as essential to fight it for
philosophical reasons.
I suppose that you could step up and pay them your $699/$199