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“The SCO Group has been threatening corporate Linux users with
legal action unless they obtain a license for its intellectual
property, but until now, businesses have been unable to buy that
license.“The Lindon, Utah, company last week began selling its SCO
Intellectual Property License for Linux, a run-time license that
lets buyers use the company’s intellectual property that is
contained in Linux distributions, company officials told eWEEK.
SCO, which is suing IBM for more than $3 billion and says Linux is
an illegal derivative of Unix, announced the license last month.
The license protects customers using Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5
kernels from infringing on SCO intellectual property rights,
officials said.“Despite the availability of the new license, some Linux users
have been unable to obtain one—or, in some cases, even
inquire about it. Linux reseller Gary Sandine, chief technology
officer at Los Alamos Computers, in Los Alamos, N.M., which owns
and ships many GNU Linux computers, said that despite numerous
calls to SCO, he has been unable to talk directly to a
salesperson…”