SCO: Fortune 500 Company Buys License, IBM Retort

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 11, 2003 @09:49AM from the traditional-daily-roundup dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SCO announced today that an undisclosed Fortune 500 company purchased Linux licenses for each of their servers running in their business. SCO: '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.'" kanly writes "The full text of IBM's countersuit against SCO is now online at LWN." M : Our own Roblimo has a pretty good take on it. Keep in mind that SCO could sell a blanket license for $1, for the publicity value.

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Re:There is one word to describe these people: by MuParadigm · 2003-08-11 10:10 · Score: 5, Informative

An undisclosed Fortune 500 company paid an undisclosed amount for an undisclosed number of licenses for undisclosed code in the Linux kernel.

Is anyone else skeptical? Or is it just me?
Re:The best bits from IBM... by anesq. · 2003-08-11 10:52 · Score: 5, Informative

Excellent interpretation, except for the last one.
"10) Even when they (SCO) found what they say we (IBM) did wrong, they didn't try to stop it first, they just went straight to the lawyers."
Should be more like:
10) Even if we did something wrong (which we didn't) SCO isn't allowing anyone to remove its supposed code, so any damages they suffer they have brought upon themselves.