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SCO Sets Up Linux-licence Shop
News SCO began selling Unix licences last year for companies that wish to continue using Linux with SCO's consent. Full licences cost $699 (£375) per server central processing unit (CPU) or $199 for a desktop PC that runs Linux.
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
SCO Ponders Hike In 'Linux IP' Licence Fees
News SCO has hinted that it may soon raise the cost of its intellectual property (IP) licences, which it says companies running Linux need to buy in order to avoid being sued. Two types of IP licences are currently on offer from SCOSource: "paid up...
[August 10, 2004, 11:25]
SCO Back-pedals On Linux Invoice Delivery
News The SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to corporate users in order to prod them into buying licences for their use of Linux, an operating system the company argues violates its Unix intellectual property.
[October 16, 2003, 10:20]
Computer Associates Buys SCO's Linux Licence
News Representatives of CA, Leggett & Platt, and Questar confirmed the licences but didn't say they agreed with SCO's assertions that Linux violates SCO's Unix intellectual property. The SCO Group confirmed on Thursday that three more companies...
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
SCO Brings Linux Licensing To Europe
News Companies outside the US that use Linux now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, following the announcement on Wednesday that SCO's licences are available worldwide. Announcing availability of the licences worldwide, Chris Sontag...
[January 14, 2004, 12:00]
Save The Last Dance For SCO
Leader The Unix rights you have are to sell licences and to keep 5 percent of the fee, says Novell. You sold upwards of $25m (£14m) worth of Unix licences to Microsoft and Sun in 2003 and kept all the money," it says.
[August 10, 2005, 14:35]
Sun Emerges From Shadows Holding SCO Licence
News These include the possibility that its SCOsource effort to derive more revenue from Unix licences could result in sporadic income. Smith said Sun doesn't know yet if the legal protections of its Unix licences extend to other companies' versions of...
[July 11, 2003, 8:05]
Sun Submits Software Licence To Open Source Initiative
News This proliferation of open-source licences is a problem, said Larry Rosen, an intellectual-property attorney who has advised OSI and who wrote Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law.
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
SCO Loses Key Case
News Other setbacks include assertions by earlier Unix owner Novell that it still owns Unix copyrights, an almost complete failure in convincing Linux users to buy SCO intellectual property licences, a countersuit by IBM accusing SCO of patent...
[July 22, 2004, 8:35]
SCO Takes Softly, Softly Approach Downunder
News The SCO Group is initially soft-pedalling threats of lawsuits against Australian and New Zealand companies who use Linux, as it starts marketing licences to secure revenue for use of the open source software.
[January 20, 2004, 9:40]
SCO Suit Won't Stop Linux Use, Says OSDL
News He says that judges would be unlikely to hold Linux users accountable for copyright infringement, based on confusion surrounding the ongoing claims made by the two companies, and said people would probably wait for a final decision as to who owns...
[February 10, 2004, 15:45]
Open Source Fans To Emulate .Net
News And the licence under which that software is released may not be compatible with the licences that govern Mono and DotGNU, he said. Microsoft objects to a provision in the GPL that prohibits software covered by different licences to be incorporated...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Novell NDS For Linux Arrives Ahead Of Schedule
News However, the programs and their user licences will be available shortly at $2 (£1.20) per user on eDirectory. NDS Corporate Edition licences will be priced at $26 (£16) per user. Support for Compaq's Tru64 Unix is expected to arrive by the end of...
[March 15, 2000, 11:00]
Microsoft: Open Source's Best Friend?
News The software maker will use the site for its own efforts being developed under Shared Source licences. Developers who start projects on CodePlex can use any licence they feel fits their project the best, but will "have access to and be encouraged...
[May 17, 2006, 11:00]
Unix Decline Extends SCO Revenue Drop
News SCO had hoped to sell licences to protect Linux users from legal attack, but there have been few takers; revenue from that SCOsource initiative was $30,000 in the most recent quarter. One is selling its two versions of Unix, UnixWare and OpenServer...
[June 2, 2005, 15:15]
SCO Sets Monday Deadline For IBM
News We would also have the right to make all the AIX licences (that IBM's) customers have invalid, but at this point in time, we have chosen not to exercise that option," Stowell said. SCO Group's next move in its legal wrestling match with IBM is...
[June 13, 2003, 7:59]
SCO Fights Back Against 'don't Pay' Advice
News One of its moves was to start selling licences to commercial users of Linux; SCO claimed these would legitimise their use of the open-source software and minimise any exposure to future legal action over alleged breaches of SCO's intellectual...
[May 28, 2004, 9:55]
SCO Chief Testifies: 'Linux Is Copy Of Unix'
News More interestingly, some observers have predicted that victory for Novell would open the door for it to sue other vendors, including Sun: "I am still going through the Novell financial filings but they could have a claim to a lot more than the...
[May 2, 2008, 17:12]
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]
OSI Mulls Changes To Definition Of Open Source
News Open source licences cover thousands of projects, including the heart of the Linux operating system, the Firefox Web browser, the Apache server software collection and Sun's latest Solaris version of Unix.
[March 3, 2005, 8:05]
