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It's pretty sad that our legal system is such that a company can threaten publicly to sue hundreds of other companies and individuals, while offering a "licensing" scheme to allow them to avoid being sued. That while the company provides zero hard evidence as to why they are entitled to the money being paid them.

I'm sure this Web company's legal team told them it was better to pay the "protection" fee than to risk being sued, but I can't shake the feeling that this is just a big, public Mafia tactic on SCO's part. Didn't they put guys like the "Teflon Don" away for this kind of thing?
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One born every minute  doctormoriarty | 03/01/04
SCO deceit  rgriffith64@... | 03/01/04
Way to go SCO!!!  Robert Crocker | 03/01/04
Would EC1Services be in violation of the GPL?  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Strange that you ask ...  Ardian Daka | 03/01/04
So for the cost of the media plus distribution  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Wrong on EV1Servers.net  Ardian Daka | 03/01/04
Incorrect on GPL  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Wrong  Ardian Daka | 03/01/04
Read the Link adaka  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Ref: the link  Ardian Daka | 03/02/04
Well how about IBMs lawyers then  David Mohring | 03/03/04
Crocker is not a lawyer  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
The "Data Protection Scam" and other crimes  David Mohring | 03/01/04
And neither is William Cheeseberger  Bobby Sskcat | 03/01/04
Neither is Boby the SS Cat (NT)  Ardian Daka | 03/01/04
Lame Bill, real Lame  Robert Crocker | 03/01/04
Crocker is not a lawyer!  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
Bill Weisgerber is clueless: So Say IBM's Lawyers  David Mohring | 03/01/04
If you can't maintain context, you'll never succeed!  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
The terms of SCO's UNIX-IP license violate GPL  David Mohring | 03/01/04
please explain your definition of a liscence  NemesisNL | 03/01/04
Make SCO pay it all back  nograin | 03/01/04
Don't count on it  Michael Kelly | 03/01/04
My Prediction...  BanjoPaterson | 03/01/04
havn't you knowticed  JWatson77 | 03/01/04
Wrong!!!!  vferrara | 03/01/04
In the meanwhile in Germany...  ghetyei | 03/01/04
... and probably not by coincidence, either.  Zogg | 03/01/04
Well...  TrollSlayer | 03/01/04
Sucker??  gordon@... | 03/01/04
The "Data Protection Scam" and other crimes  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Just a curiosity questions  vferrara | 03/01/04
Until we get real answers to the *REAL* curios questions  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Makes EV1 look stupid  Arrg | 03/01/04
Makes EV1 look like they care  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
No, it makes them look reeeeeaaaallly stupid  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/01/04
You have to pay to play  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
They have paid...  ryusen | 03/03/04
Makes EV1 look like Microsoft lackey  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Na.. I still think it makes them look stupid  Arrg | 03/01/04
Their customers may not agree  issthatso | 03/01/04
No, it makes them look stupid  NoB$ | 03/01/04
Here's an example of how stupid it is:  Arrg | 03/01/04
Just another monthly press release.  gordon@... | 03/01/04
SCO excited about having customer  rgriffith64@... | 03/01/04
Blackmail is legal ... in hands of SCO ( MS ? ) (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/01/04
This is interesting  Chipper1963 | 03/01/04
SCO LIcense needed to run Windows  B.O.F.H. | 03/01/04
Microsoft has licensed the SCO IP  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
"No," Sontag said. Microsoft merely licensed an API layer  David Mohring | 03/01/04
Microsoft to license Unix from SCO  B.O.F.H. | 03/01/04
It?s always interesting why people wanna be as blind as Justice (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/01/04
No it's not if you've bothered checking EV1Servers.net  Ardian Daka | 03/01/04
And they offer Windows servers as well  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
my golly miss molly  JWatson77 | 03/01/04
So why did they switch to Microsoft?  ghetyei | 03/01/04
because it's a PR scam  Romanval | 03/01/04
They do both, silly  Bill Weisgerber | 03/01/04
Corrections to the article  Richard Flude | 03/01/04
Windows owns 25% of SCO, huh ?  bigbearpcs2 | 03/01/04

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