* Your thoughts on SCO's latest licensing policy News of The SCO Group’s attempt to enforce the intellectual property rights and copyrights it claims to have over Linux continues to draw strong scorn from readers of this newsletter. Last week, we discussed SCO’s latest policy shift to only offering its $1,400 license to “Fortune 500” companies. The one-time license, charged for each processor on which a user runs Linux, exempts the licensee from any legal trouble regarding future court rulings on the pending SCO/IBM Linux lawsuit.News of The SCO Group’s attempt to enforce the intellectual property rights and copyrights it claims to have over Linux continues to draw strong scorn from readers of this newsletter. Last week, we discussed SCO’s latest policy shift to only offering its $1,400 license to “Fortune 500” companies. The one-time license, charged for each processor on which a user runs Linux, exempts the licensee from any legal trouble regarding future court rulings on the pending SCO/IBM Linux lawsuit.One reader says SCO’s licensing policy changes are proof that the firm’s motives are not altruistic. “This seems like a ploy to ‘encourage’ corporate management to buy now or pay more later,” the reader says. “The fact that they are not offering this ‘relief’ from the threat of a lawsuit for the smaller companies sounds like they are not holding them in violation. In reality I think it is more that they want to get large corporate management to ‘just buy it’ [the licenses] and avoid the headaches [of] going to court against SCO.”Another user wrote that the news about SCO’s legal and licensing maneuverings are getting old, and making it lose credibility with users. The reader calls the firm “a pathetic company that doesn’t innovate and lowers itself into predatory tactics like most companies nowadays.” This reader, also a consultant, gives advice on how enterprises should proceed.“I have advised all my clients to turn to Apple for most of their needs, only upgrade certain Windows computers … and run Linux and – guess who’s back? – FreeBSD on their servers.”CORRECTION: Last week’s newsletter “Red Hat debuts its latest heavy-duty Linux OS” incorrectly stated the memory limits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The product supports up to 64G bytes. Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe