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SCO brings Linux licensing to Europe
News Companies outside the US that use Linux now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, following the announcement on Wednesday that SCO's licences are available worldwide. Announcing availability of the licences worldwide, Chris Sontag...
[January 14, 2004, 12:00]
SCO sets up Linux-licence shop
News Full licences cost $699 (£375) per server central processing unit (CPU) or $199 for a desktop PC that runs Linux. SCO began selling Unix licences last year for companies that wish to continue using Linux with SCO's consent.
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
News SCO has hinted that it may soon raise the cost of its intellectual property (IP) licences, which it says companies running Linux need to buy in order to avoid being sued. If this happened, then the company's claim that Linux contains its IP would...
[August 10, 2004, 11:25]
SCO back-pedals on Linux invoice delivery
News The SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to corporate users in order to prod them into buying licences for their use of Linux, an operating system the company argues violates its Unix intellectual property.
[October 16, 2003, 10:20]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
News The SCO Group confirmed on Thursday that three more companies -- Computer Associates, Leggett & Platt, and Questar -- have purchased licences for its intellectual property, allowing them to run Linux without fear of SCO legal action.
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
Corel Linux to run Windows applications
News Licences will be included to allow applications to be accessed from an NT server without the need to aquire addictional third-party licences. Users of Corel Linux will soon be able to run Windows applications via a network connection using software...
[January 7, 2000, 11:08]
OSI targets licence cull
News Sam Greenblatt, a member of board of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) -- which is working with OSI on the issue -- and senior vice-president at Computer Associates International in charge of Linux strategy, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News...
[February 18, 2005, 10:25]
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News HP's top Linux executive, Martin Fink, in particular has pressed for a radical reduction in the number of licences, to avoid needless confusion and expense. License proliferation also makes more work for company lawyers evaluating open source...
[April 7, 2005, 9:20]
Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup
News Torvalds was among those who chimed in about the move, saying that dual licences cover several other important sections of Linux kernel software. But legal complications connected to the licences governing the interpreter had hampered Red Hat from...
[February 17, 2003, 8:09]
Lenovo denies ditching Linux
News Kardonski apparently confused Lenovo's stance on providing licences for Linux, as opposed to providing preloaded versions of the software for customers, Godin said. Because different companies use different configurations of Linux on their ThinkPad...
[June 5, 2006, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As you can't easily move software licences around, they often slap SuSE Linux on computers before passing them on. If, as Microsoft says, the actual cost of software licences is as nothing compared to the business of running and supporting it (the...
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
IBM to release Bluetooth tool for Linux developers
News Developers will have to pay for the tool: 10,000 licences will cost $1,000, 50,000 will cost $3,000, and unlimited licences will cost $10,000. IBM officials Tuesday said the company will be releasing BlueDrekar, a tool to help Linux developers...
[November 1, 2000, 9:22]
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News Open-source software is picking up steam in European businesses, and Novell is following suit -- perhaps to the extent of releasing some of its own products under open-source licences, according to Novell EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
News SCO argues that any company using Linux must pay for the licences. Legal analysts have said companies should avoid paying for any licences until lawsuits or legal judgments conclude that it's necessary.
[November 26, 2003, 10:30]
Linux as a technology cost-saving strategy
News Quantify: Calculate the cost of licensing multiple OS licences for identified servers and/or workstations from Microsoft vs.one license for all workstations and one license for all servers with Linux.
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Clash between Linux and encryption 'inevitable'
News At an Open Source Development Labs meeting last week, Fink learned there are 52 open-source licences, with three more expected soon. There is no value, and there is really confusion in having that many licences.
[August 4, 2004, 9:00]
Linux firms rubbish Microsoft's customer win
Talkback No extra server software, no expensive Office licences, no firewall software. And no per-user licences. "when it decided to bring its outsourced Linux Web server back in house it decided to switch to Microsoft technologies to consolidate its...
[March 24, 2005, 12:13]
SCO suit won't stop Linux use, says OSDL
News He says that judges would be unlikely to hold Linux users accountable for copyright infringement, based on confusion surrounding the ongoing claims made by the two companies, and said people would probably wait for a final decision as to who owns...
[February 10, 2004, 15:45]
Novell fellow leads Microsoft's Linux embrace
News Kroah-Hartman, who heads the Linux Driver Project, has been arguing for some time that all Linux drivers should be released under open-source licences. Microsoft said it made sense to release the code under version 2 of the GPL, even though it has...
[July 23, 2009, 17:08]
MS-backed group lobbies against government open source
News While Software Choice's principles rarely mention open source directly, they include a provision that governments should promote "broad availability" of the results of publicly funded research by steering clear of such open-source licences as the...
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
