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InfoWorld: SCO Readies New Linux Licensing Program

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“The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that
it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to
run Linux without fear of litigation.

“The program will be announced ‘within the next month or so,’
according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company
will announce what he calls a ‘precursor’ to this program in a
press conference with SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride and
SCO’s high-profile attorney David Boies, of the firm Boies,
Schiller & Flexner…

“Stowell declined to provide specific details of SCO’s new
licensing program, saying only, ‘we’re working on some details to
try and create some kind of a licensing program for Linux users to
be able to run Linux legally…'”

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