SCOsource is a business division of The SCO Group that managed its (now legally voided) Unix intellectual property.
On July 21, 2003, SCO announced that it intended to sell binary-only licences to use the free Linux operating system which would remove the threat of litigation from licence-holders.
On March 6, 2004 Network Computing likewise published an article in which it said: "Computer Associates, a major corporate backer and user of Linux, signed a SCOsource license last August as part of a $40 million settlement between CA, the Canopy Group and Center 7".
[2] Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of the Linux technology group at CA, further added that "CA's license for Linux technology is part of a larger settlement with the Canopy Group.
Computer Associates later denied buying licenses from SCO [3][permanent dead link]: In October 2004 SCO Group Inc's CEO Darl McBride would admit that, after initial deals with Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc brought in $8.3m in the second quarter of fiscal 2003, revenue from SCOsource would drop to $7.3 million in the third quarter and $10.3 million in the fourth.