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Microsoft and Sun licenses

Microsoft and Sun licenses

Posted Aug 12, 2007 11:48 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Microsoft and Sun licenses by gdt
Parent article: A bad day for the SCO Group

Here's a quote from the beginning of the article you linked to. It seems to answer your questions to an extent (strange you managed to misread it, the "rights equivalent to ownership" comment is not about the Sun/SCO deal):

"Schwartz: We took a license from AT&T initially for $100 million as we didn't own the IP. The license we took also made clear that we had rights equivalent to ownership. When we did the deal with SCO earlier this year we bought a bunch of drivers "


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