Key Organizations in Free & Open-Source Software - The SCO Group, Inc. Part 1 of 2

Key Organizations in Free & Open-Source Software - The SCO Group

, Inc. Part 1 of 2

The SCO Group, Inc. is a software company based in Lindon, Utah. The company's principal products are proprietary versions of UNIX (UnixWare and OpenServer), Smallfoot (an operating system for point-of-sale applications), software that provides various mobile services (Me, Inc.), and various associated products and services.

The company was originally founded in 1994, by Bryan Sparks and Ransom Love, initially as a Linux distributor. Caldera also purchased DR-DOS (a DOS operating system) from Novell in 1996, and as a result inherited a lawsuit with Microsoft over claims of monopolization, illegal tying, exclusive dealing, and tortious interference - until a settlement between the two companies (on undisclosed terms, but apparently involving a payment to Caldera) was eventually reached in 2000. The company went public in 2000, and in 2001, after protracted negotiations, Caldera acquired the Server and Professional Services divisions of the Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., and thus the products of UnixWare and OpenServer. In 2002, Caldera formed an alliance with other Linux vendors, SuSE, Turbolinux and Connectiva, to produce a combined Linux distribution known as UnitedLinux.

In mid 2002, then CEO, Ransom Love, was replaced by Darl McBride. The company then began to change direction, changing its name to The SCO Group, Inc. In late 2002 or early 2003, rumors began to appear in the press that SCO was considering making intellectual property claims against the Linux community. The first visible sign of this was in January 2003, when SCO formed a new division, called SCOsource, initially focused on licensing SCO UNIX libraries, which the company claimed that some users were using improperly on Linux systems.

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