SCO Group wins Linux licensee
C|Net | at | by Mike
One company in the Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest corporations had been convinced by its arguments. SCO declined to say which company took out the license or to reveal licensing specifics.
The Lindon, Utah, company said the deal illustrates the merits of its case. SCO said it hopes the deal will set a precedent.
"This Fortune 500 company recognizes the importance of paying for SCO's intellectual property that is found in Linux, and (they) can now run Linux in their environment under a legitimate license from SCO," Chris Sontag, head of the company's SCOsource effort to extract more revenue from its Unix intellectual property, said in a statement. "We anticipate this being the first of many licensees that will properly compensate SCO for our intellectual property."