Where to for the little people [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] found this on SCO vs Linux]

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Wed Jul 23 22:06:18 CDT 2003


fredjame wrote:
> With the high degree of unlikelyhood that I would willingly go to court 
> against SCO on my own (assuming the old divide and conquer MO), and the 
> fact that I would be resistant to the idea of paying SCO anything, I 
> just glanced over my shelf and found that in Red Hat releases, according 
> to the boxes, version 7.0 contained kernel version 2.2.16, and version 
> 7.1 contained kernel version 2.4.

According to the Linux Counter (www.linuxcounter.org) there are probably
around 18 million Linux users in the world - plus all those people who
have Linux in embedded devices.

I think the odds of SCO making it around to dragging you into court are
pretty small.

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