SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 1, 2004 @04:08AM from the nice-prime-number-of-millions dept.

uniqueCondition points to a story on News.com, writing "With SCO's legal costs reaching $7.3 million in their most recent quarter, nearly half of the $15 million it has spent in the last five quarters, SCO can't afford this kind of litigation. They have therefore limited their payment to $31 million for the entire case and is giving their legal team a larger slice of any settlement SCO achieves. Under the current agreement, the firm's contingency payment is 20 percent of a settlement. Under the new agreement, that increases to a range of 20 to 33 percent." uniqueCondition links also to coverage at Techrepublic.com, InformationWeek and The Inquirer.

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Re:source license revenue from where by BurritoWarrior · 2004-09-01 04:17 · Score: 5, Informative

It's a combination of EV1 revenue being booked and the fact that they now count "Unix licenses" in the deal since they give out a "Linux license" with every Unix purchase.
This was on GrokLaw .. by talexb · 2004-09-01 04:40 · Score: 5, Informative

.. almost 18 hours ago. See this page.
SCO city to city tour by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 05:11 · Score: 5, Informative

It looks like they are planning to go on the road to spread their FUD:

http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/2004/

It might be a good idea to organize groups of people to show up and voice some opposition. Handing out free GNU/Linux distros would be fun too!