[Am-info] CNET: Microsoft to license SCO's Unix code

[Mitch Stone]

I haven't been following this story closely, but there must be more 
here then meets the eye. Microsoft and SCO have had a long and not 
always cordial business relationship. The wording of Microsoft's press 
releases suggests an out-of-court settlement of some kind.

Mitch

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 06:37 AM, Roy Bixler wrote:

> Here's a curious story.  Why would Microsoft want to license "obsolete
> technology from 30 years ago"?  I also thought that Microsoft
> disapproved of companies such as SCO that litigate when they have
> failed to compete in the marketplace.  Microsoft claims that their
> license with SCO "is representative of Microsoft's ongoing commitment
> to respecting intellectual property and the IT community's healthy
> exchange of IP through licensing", which is hard to interpret as other
> than a tacit admission that they are supporting SCO's lawsuit against
> IBM over Linux.