[oclug] Canadian LUGs and SCO

[Dana Webber]

On Saturday 26 July 2003 12:04, Rod Giffin wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 11:44, Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
> > I doubt very much that the SCO v. IBM will ever get to court.  In the
> > meantime we loose.  The real devil here is indeed SCO, because it is by
> > their actions that they are jeopardizing an industry.
>
> It just dawned on me, my business has already suffered because of this
> SCO action.  Last week, I lost a $12,000 contract to develop software
> which I had previously in the bag partly (ie. the client's
> representative stated it was a large part of their consideration)
> because of the uncertainty now surrounding Linux.  I wasn't even going
> to use an SMP based kernel.  Just Linux on a beige box, Apache and
> Tomcat.
>
> Rod.

Are they going to use MS instead? 
There are many articles about surprises in there licencing.

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Dana Webber
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