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Reuters/Forbes: SCO Approached Google About Linux License

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2004

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

“SCO Group Inc., the software company that is suing IBM and
extracting royalties from other Linux users, said Friday that it
had held ‘low-level talks’ with Internet search engine Google about
a license agreement.

“‘Certainly if they’re using 10,000 Linux servers that include
our intellectual property as part of Unix, we would want them to
license,’ said Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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