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'Failing' SCO sees Linux licence revenue plunge
Talkback The great SCOsource lie is that it is strictly a "Unix in Linux" licensing scheme. A cursory examination of past SCOsource revenue reveals that the Microsoft, Sun, and other source code licenses were all under the SCOsource umbrella.
[September 9, 2005, 23:10]
SCO announces plans for new legal Web site
Talkback perhaps SCO will host it at http://scosource.com --oops, no. It looks like SCO overlooked registering the rather obvious domain name when setting up the SCOSource business!
[October 17, 2004, 5:29]
SCO reports profit and vows to fight on
News The company said $7.3m of its revenue for the quarter, which ended on 31 July, came from its SCOsource licensing division, which is charged with protecting SCO's Unix-related intellectual property. The company also said it expected fourth-quarter...
[August 15, 2003, 10:20]
SCO and BayStar still fighting
News Duelling press releases indicate that the dispute centres on SCO's disclosures about its SCOsource program, which sells Unix intellectual property. According to SCO, BayStar claims that SCO has given inconsistent statements to the public and to...
[July 26, 2004, 9:10]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
News He told ZDNet UK that SCO was "evaluating" its SCOSource programme, and could decide to make it much more expensive for companies to indemnify themselves against attack from SCO in the future. Two types of IP licences are currently on offer from...
[August 10, 2004, 11:25]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
News The SCOsource effort hasn't been terribly lucrative recently, bringing in $20,000 in revenue in its most recent quarter, compared with costs of $3.4m in the quarter -- due in part to lawsuits involving IBM, Novell, Red Hat, AutoZone and...
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
SCO brings Linux licensing to Europe
News Announcing availability of the licences worldwide, Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, which is the intellectual property licensing arm of SCO, conceded that the offer is a double-edged sword.
[January 14, 2004, 12:00]
SCO reports further financial gloom
News In regard to the SCOsource effort to make money through this licensing and litigation, revenue declined from $10.3m a year ago to $120,000 in the most recent quarter, SCO said. Costs for the SCOsource programme are high, however: $4.3m for the...
[December 22, 2004, 7:45]
SCO refreshes Unix line-up
News The company's SCOsource effort, which includes its legal actions and its attempt -- largely unsuccessful so far -- to sell intellectual property licences to Linux users, could trigger more declines, SCO disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday.
[June 16, 2004, 9:10]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
News Where a consumer acquired a copy of the relevant Linux kernels from SCO prior to the commencement of SCO's SCOSource initiative, then that consumer should be entitled to the grant of a licence by SCO on terms which are of the same effect as the GPL.
[February 19, 2004, 9:00]
SuSE, SCO bullish on profits
News The company's SCOsource effort to increase revenue from Unix licences accounted for $8.3m of its $21.4m in revenue for its quarter ended on 30 April. That SCOsource revenue included a Unix licence Microsoft signed and another Unix licence by an as...
[May 29, 2003, 7:35]
Microsoft email 'misunderstood' - SCO
News The cost of these suits and the rest of the company's SCOsource effort to derive more money from its intellectual property was $3.4m for the company's most recent quarter. Bob Bench, SCO's chief financial officer, said Wednesday that the company...
[March 5, 2004, 7:55]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback No one is interested in SCOSource regardless of how many press releases SCO issue saying otherwise. Great business sense, threatening that the price *may* go up so buy your licenses while they are cheap.
[August 10, 2004, 12:38]
SCO's legal fees eat up profits
News The company said $10.3m of its revenue for the quarter, which ended on 31 October, came from its SCOsource licensing division, which is charged with protecting SCO's Unix-related intellectual property.
[December 23, 2003, 11:50]
SCO: Novell's Linux claim is 'baseless'
News Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, and Chris Sontag, head of the company's SCOsource initiative to derive more money from its Unix intellectual property, plan to speak to what they term "baseless" Unix ownership assertions by software maker Novell.
[May 30, 2003, 15:07]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
News In an interview with ZDNet UK on Tuesday, Gregory Blepp, vice president of SCOsource -- the IP licensing division within SCO -- said that the first of the companies targeted for lawsuits have been identified, and it is now just a matter of...
[November 26, 2003, 10:30]
SCO seeks to halt IBM's Unix
News We have terminated IBM's 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 company's Unix intellectual property.
[June 17, 2003, 7:40]
SCO suffers another loss
News SCO's controversial SCOsource Linux licences — which it says protects users from being sued for using Linux — also proved less popular. SCO, the Unix vendor embroiled in a long-running legal battle over Linux, has recorded another financial loss.
[March 2, 2007, 15:53]
Open-source guru claims proof of MS-SCO link
News The memo is a 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 effort to reap revenues from its Unix intellectual property.
[March 4, 2004, 16:30]
IBM: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News That's hogwash," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president of operating systems at SCO and head of the company's SCOsource effort to make more money from its intellectual property. IBM has dismissed as idle an SCO Group threat to cancel Big Blue's...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
