An official right-to-use license for Linux! But wait, there's more...

[Bill Sconce]

"So it looks like SCOsource was the first draft or dress rehearsal
for what Microsoft is now trying with patents, all right, trying to
find a way to neuter the GPL so it can tax Linux. That was SCO's
dream too."  [PJ]

The last two paragraphs below,  ...priceless.  [Bill]

_________________________________________________________________
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070526142455986

Chris Sontag Admits to "Linux License", 
Also Calls it a "Covenant Not to Sue" 

["A." == Chris Sontag, in his March 14, 2007 deposition]
Q.  ...under oath?
A.  Yes.

Q.  Anything you need to correct or clarify
    from this morning?
A.  No. I don't believe so.

Q.  Okay. So can you tell me again when was
    the first time you think anyone came up with numbers
    in terms of projections for the revenue that
    SCOsource would generate?
A.  I think by April or May of 2003, we
    started developing some kind of high level
    projections of what we expected to be able to be
    accomplished with the SCOsource right-to-use
    licensing program. And it was based on the
    projections of commercial use of Linux and servers
    that was somewhere on the order of, by that time,
    about 2 million commercial servers. But we believed
    that number could be substantially higher because
    there wasn't really effective reporting mechanisms,
    and that it was having a fairly high growth rate. So
    by this time now, it's on the order of 10 to 20
    million installed servers as of 2007.
    But based on our pricing that we had, we
    viewed that ultimately we should be able to get a
    hundred percent adoption of our UNIX or our
    right-to-use license with the commercial use of
    Linux. So whatever the current installed base is, we
    thought we should be able to get the entire
    commercial use licensed appropriately. It's just how
    quickly that could occur.
    
Q.  Which is the right-to-use license, again?
A.  The license -- the right-to-use license
    for Linux.

Q.  The IP license?
A.  Well, no. The right-to-use license for
    Linux that provided the covenant not to sue.