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3.1.2004

Nmap 3.50

Nmap 3.50 Press Release: "SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even unconstitutional)! Meanwhile they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their 'Supplemental Open Source CD'. In response to these blatant violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux, Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms. "

This is freaking brilliant. I once was a beta tester for SCO (1980's). At one time, with the Xenix/SCO UNIX products, they had the majority of *NIX installations in the world.

That being said, the current CEO/President is on crack and I (and the majority of IT Professionals) are just waiting for Wall Street to catch on and bankrupt SCO.