Just when it seemed like nothing was going the company's way, the SCO Group received a piece of good news last week. Microsoft announced it would license a Unix patent from SCO along with the source code. To SCO — which recently changed its name from Caldera Systems — this would mean the Linux software industry could see that SCO's Unix intellectual property claims were legitimate and enforceable.
If things now play out in SCO's favor, the company might be able to at least slow the momentum of Linux, which has been engulfing the computer server market at Unix's expense.
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