siliconvalley.internet.com: SCO Group Claims First Linux IP Licensee

“‘We’ve had more than 300 companies in the first four business
days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO’s
Intellectual Property License for Linux,’ Chris Sontag, senior vice
president and general manager, SCOsource, SCO’s software licensing
division said in a statement. ‘This Fortune 500 company recognizes
the importance of paying for SCO’s intellectual property that is
found in Linux and can now run Linux in their environment under a
legitimate license from SCO. We anticipate this being the first of
many licensees that will properly compensate SCO for our
intellectual property. After having initiated the program last
week, we are very pleased with the licensing interest to date.’

“However, Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Brian Skiba, who
visited with SCO last week and took a look at its evidence of
copying from the UnixWare kernel into Linux, pointed out that many
of those calls likely did not come from companies interested in
buying a license.

“‘Some of those companies probably were leaving colorful
messages that were not necessarily that they wanted to engage in a
license,’ Skiba told internetnews.com. ‘[SCO] even told me that
probably a third of those customers were calling to basically
complain…'”

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