SCO Claims Fortune 500 Firm Bends To Licensing Demands

Compliance

SCO, which has taken IBM to court--and which is the target of a countersuit by Big Blue--has threatened corporations with legal action if they don't purchase licenses to its Unix. SCO claims that the open-source Linux operating system contains code taken from its Unix OS.

The Linden, Utah-based company would not divulge the name of the licensee, only saying that it was a Fortune 500 firm. SCO cited confidentiality clauses in the license as the reason why it could not disclose the buyer or the terms of the deal.

The mysterious corporation purchased a license for each of its servers running Linux, SCO said on Monday.

This story courtesy of TechWeb.