:Srinivas: CA Says It Didn’t Pay SCO No Stinking Linux Tax
Srinivas: CA Says It Didn’t Pay SCO No Stinking Linux Tax Mar 5, 2004, 13 :00 UTC (19 Talkback[s]) (8505 reads) (Other stories by Davanum Srinivas)
"The Linux faithful have been hammering Computer Associates as a heretic since the British publication Computer Weekly quoting the SCO Group’s CFO Bob Bench identified CA Thursday as one of SCO’s rare Linux licensees.
"CA senior VP of product development Mark Barrenechea says that Bench’s claim is nonsense. CA has not paid SCO any Linux taxes, he said.
"Drawing up short of calling SCO a liar, Barrenechea claims that SCO has twisted a $40 million breach-of-contract settlement that CA paid last summer to the Canopy Group, SCO’s biggest stockholder, and Center 7, another Canopy company, and has turned it into a purported Linux license..."
