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

[Sam Noble]

I saw this in the news yesterday, I thought 'that should have been LAC!'
Gary called first!
Of course that's on the theory that all publicity is good publicity...

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:54, Gary Sandine wrote:
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> From: Ron Guerin
> To: NYLUG-Talk <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
> 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. 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 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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