[nmglug] [Fwd: [nylug-talk] SCO licensee says: I wouldn't do it again.]

[Gary Sandine]

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Subject: [nylug-talk] SCO licensee says: I wouldn't do it again.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:26:01 -0500

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/25/HNscolicensee%20_1.html

SCO Linux licensee has second thoughts on deal
Deal with SCO was widely criticized by licensee's customers 
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service March 25, 2004   
 

Less than one month after becoming the first publicly announced
purchaser of The SCO Group Inc.'s controversial intellectual property
license for Linux, Houston-based Internet service provider Everyones
Internet Ltd. is reconsidering the benefits of doing business with the
Linux community's enemy number one. 

EV1Servers.Net (EV1), the hosting division of Everyones Internet,
announced on March 1 that it had licensed SCO's intellectual property
(IP), saying that it was looking to offer its customers stability in the
wake of SCO's protracted battle with the open source community. SCO
claims that the Linux operating system violates its own intellectual
property and that users of Linux could be sued over these claims unless
they purchase the Lindon, Utah, company's Linux license. 

The deal with SCO not only would prevent EV1's Linux hosting customers
from being sued, it also would take both EV1 and its users "out of the
current fray," said Everyones Internet CEO Robert Marsh on the day of
the announcement. 

As it happened, the licensing deal placed Marsh's company in the very
center of the SCO Linux dispute. SCO portrayed EV1 as a model client for
its licensing plan -- a company that had recognized the "importance of
SCO's valuable IP asset," according to SCO CEO Darl McBride. 

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So how does Marsh feel about the deal nearly a month later? "Would I do
it again? No. I'll go on the record as saying that," Marsh said. "I
certainly know a lot more today than I knew a month ago, in a lot of
respects."

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