[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Weta Digital and Massey University face massive bills from
SCO’s attempted imposition of a Linux licensing charge, but neither
intends paying–at this stage.“The SCO Group last week announced how much it wants Linux users
to pay for the privilege of using the open source OS. A licence for
the ‘right to use SCO IP’ in a Linux server starts at $US699 for a
single-CPU system. That’s an ‘introductory’ price; SCO says the
price will double to $US1399 after October 15…“Even at the introductory price Massey University’s Helix
supercomputer would incur a licensing charge of $US97,875. Chris
Messom, the university’s parallel computing director, says it’s
‘unlikely’ the university will buy an introductory licence for the
132-CPU Beowulf cluster…”