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SCO brings Linux licensing to Europe

...as… is currently found in Linux". Announcing availability of the licences worldwide, Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, which is the... Read more

14 January, 2004 by Matt Loney

Microsoft 'offered to underwrite SCO funding'

...of Salt Lake City venture firm S2 Partners, to SCO vice president Chris Sontag and chief financial officer Robert Bench. Linux advocate Eric Raymond claimed... Read more

9 October, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...we want to grow further or do acquisitions" -- consultant Mike Anderer to Chris Sontag, general manager of SCO Source, the IP arm of SCO. It... Read more

5 March, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...we want to grow further or do acquisitions" -- consultant Mike Anderer to Chris Sontag, general manager of SCO Source, the IP arm of SCO. It... Read more

5 March, 2004

Open-source guru claims proof of MS-SCO link

...12 October, 2003, message from Mike Anderer, of strategic consultants S2, to Chris Sontag, vice president and general manager of SCOsource, which is SCO's... Read more

4 March, 2004 by Matthew Broersma

SCO takes softly, softly approach downunder

...resort in resolving copyright infringement [issues]". O'Shaughnessy's remarks came after Chris Sontag, the senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, which is... Read more

20 January, 2004 by Iain Ferguson

SCO may have SGI in crosshairs

...crosshairs. SCO on Friday declined to comment on future legal action, but Chris Sontag, the senior vice president in charge of SCO's effort to... Read more

8 September, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SCO unveils code 'evidence'

...see it, we decided to show a few pieces of evidence," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president of the SCOsource unit, which is charged with... Read more

19 August, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Opponents attack SCO's GPL 'nonsense'

The SCO Group's argument that the GNU General Public License is invalid would also mean Microsoft is breaking the law, according to the Free Software Foundation Read more

19 August, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

SCO exhibits contentious code

...is coming from Unix." McBride's message was reinforced by comments from Chris Sontag, head of the company's SCOsource effort to extract more revenue... Read more

19 August, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

SCO signs up first Linux licensee

...now run Linux in their environment under a legitimate licence from SCO," Chris Sontag, head of the company's SCOsource effort to extract more revenue... Read more

12 August, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SCO dangles Linux-licence carrot

SCO is hoping Linux users would rather pay up than face the prospect of protracted litigation Read more

22 July, 2003 by Lisa M.Bowman and Stephen Shankland

SCO seeks to halt IBM's Unix

...right to use AIX in their business, development, distribution and sales," said Chris Sontag, head of the SCOsource effort to derive more revenue from the... Read more

17 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SCO may target more hardware makers

...America, a company executive said. In an interview with CNET News.com, Chris Sontag, senior vice president at SCO, said the Lindon, Utah-based company... Read more

16 June, 2003 by David Becker and Michael Kanellos

Did SCO open Unix code?

Linux pundits are arguing that by selling its own version of the open-source operating system, SCO Group undermined its Unix intellectual-property case Read more

12 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

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