Microsoft
to license SCO Group Unix rights ZDNet May 19 2003 2:37AM ET
Houston! We have a problem.
Note, that Bill Gates was an early backer of the Original SCO
company (the one that licensed the AT&T UNIX license), and this
was prior to SCO acquiring Unixware (the AT&T UNIX IP
vehicle). I think IBM and the other large Linux stake holders
may have screwed up here, and Microsoft is going make this clearer
in the not to distant future.