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And his answer to the question "Are you paying licence fees"? Michael simply replied "Nope."
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Cheery to see another US IT business refusing to knuckle under to The Sco Group's unproven allegations of IP infringement and demands for outrageous licensing fees. Besides the millions of Linux advocates, SCO has offended IBM, HP, SGI, Red Hat and SuSE. Dell and other companies are pressing forward with a Linux strategy. The presumption is SCO's legal fate is a foregone failure in the face of IBM and Red Hat legal responses. Red Hat continues to operate and expand. IBM is touting Linux in global advertising. Sun is pressing forward with MadHatter Linux. HP is pressing forward with Red Flag Linux for China. Asian nations are uniting around Linux, where they could agree on little before. Entire nations are prefering the transparent and yet more secure Linux operating system to the older expensive proprietary packaged software. It appears the silent IT majority is speaking to SCO with very noisy and global actions.