Thanks DeX for showing us this article. Controversial software seller the SCO Group has launched an online-ordering site for companies that want to use the open-source Linux operating system with SCO"s blessing.
The Web site debuted quietly last week. It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a license that covers SCO"s Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux.
Full licenses cost $699 per server central processing unit (CPU) or $199 for a desktop PC that runs Linux. An annual license costs $149 per server CPU or $49 per desktop PC.
SCO rattled the technology world last year, when it sued IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated source code from the Unix operating system, which SCO controls, into Linux software. The case has since ballooned into a far-ranging attack on Linux, attracting legal attention from Linux leader Red Hat and the ire of Linux supporters worldwide.