[MLUG] Windows or Linux? What Recruiters, HR Managers Need to Know

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Some nice things in this article...

Windows or Linux? What Recruiters, HR Managers Need to Know
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/4/emw115429.htm


but this is really sad:


 Too good to be true?

 Steven Ciarciello, president and CEO, CompuData, a privately held
 business systems and software solutions provider, is concerned about a
 looming lawsuit involving Linux and SCO (the Santa Cruz Operation). He's
 so concerned about the outcome that he says his company is starting
 "throttle back to the Windows environment."

 SCO, he says, is threatening lawsuits against every single user of Linux
 because it is alleging that Linux operating systems of any variant have
 used proprietary and patented information from the UNIX operating system
 source code that SCO owns.

 "These Linux variant companies don't have the money for lawsuits. If
 these companies are going to be sued and they don't have money, they're
 just going to go away, which will leave Linux customers in a difficult
 position. SCO wants businesses that have Linux operating systems to pay
 $700 for the use of that operating system ... to them so that you won.t
 get sued," Ciarciello says.


What a wimp!

Mike
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