Microsoft to license Unix code

[Jason Stephenson]

Mike McKernan wrote:

> Yep.  According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
> 
>       http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/122709_caldera20.html
> 
> "The agreement, which Microsoft entered under to head off potential
> litigation, will put between $10 million and $20 million into the
> hands of The SCO Group, of Lindon, Utah, said a source close to the
> deal." 
> 
> Seems a lot for a license that they have no obvious use for.

Microsoft probably sees it as an investment. Ten to twenty million can 
buy quite a bit of lawyer time for SCO. The more lawyer time for SCO, 
the more FUD gets spread about Linux, the more Microsoft benefits.

They aren't the richest corporation in the world for nothing.