SCO Offers Up The 'SCAMP' Stack

Robert wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article about SCO's newest marketing tactic. They're offering their OS as part of a 'SCAMP' stack, ala the more familiar LAMP setup. From the article: "The Lindon, Utah-based Unix vendor has included the open source Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP and Perl programming languages with its SCO OpenServer operating system since the launch of OpenServer 6 in June 2005. It is now pitching the technologies as a SCAMP stack, placing it squarely up against the Linux-based LAMP stack. SCO claims that Linux contains Unix code donated to the open source operating system in violation of agreements between it and IBM Corp."

Re:Tetris Installer!

[realnowhereman]

I heard that the reason nobody does this is that some evil corp has a patent on mini-games during installers.

I'm not really sure how, I remember playing pac man on my sinclair once while a game was loading from tape, which would surely be prior art.

Re:Pay more for less!

[shish]

I doubt many people would stop calling it LAMP if it included FreeBSD instead of Linux

I've seen "FLPR" (FreeBSD / LigHTTPd / Postgres / Ruby (on Rails)) gaining popularity...

What really caught my eye here:

[Anonymous Coward]

While OpenServer 6 was launched in two versions, with the Starter Edition for two users costing $599, and the Enterprise Edition for 10 users costing $1,399, the SCAMP stack is licensed for five users and is available for $999 until July 31.

Now wait, I'd be curious about this. It sounds to me like "SCAMP" is basically four free programs packaged together. Every single one of those four programs is under a different open source license, and the strictest of those licenses-- the GPL [theregister.co.uk]-- SCO is probably not bound by becuase they bought a commercial MySQL license from MySQL AB. But I have to wonder, exactly how are they enforcing this "licensed for five users" bit and are the licenses of all the included softwares okay with this? Perl at least allows closed-source redistribution I think, what about the others?