C++ is one of the properties that SCO owns today and we frequently are approached by customers who wish to license C++ from us and we do charge for that. Those arrangements are done on a case-by-case basis with each customer and are not disclosed publicly. C++ licensing is currently part of SCO's SCOsource licensing program.-- Blake Stowell, 2003-03-04

Lets go back to the gas service station comparison. If you were the service station owner, and you knew that people were taking your gasoline on purpose, would you turn a blind eye to it and say, "these people might be curious and irate with me if I tell them that I need to start charging them for the gasoline that they are stealing." Property is property, and if there is the potential that SCO's intellectual property is being used without permission, then we need to investigate that. We're not saying yet that it is, but we have to research areas where that might be happening. Anyone who runs a business can certainly understand that.-- Blake Stowell, 2003-03-04

SCO has contributed to the Open Source community in the past, and I'm sure that SCO will contribute to the Open Source community in the future. SCO isn't going to give away intellectual property that the company could be monetizing for the benefit of its shareholders.-- Blake Stowell, 2003-03-04

SCO owns the core UNIX code that was originally developed by AT&T. Everyone knows (and Linus has publicly stated) that Linux is a derivative of that UNIX source code. Whether or not parts of SCO's UNIX intellectual property resides in any parts of Linux is still being investigated. To comment further on that would be pre-mature until we come to a conclusion on any findings.-- Blake Stowell, 2003-03-04

So far all that we have announced is that we are licensing our UNIX libraries for use with Linux. The Linux community should actually see that as a very positive thing because now customers have access to nearly 4,000 UNIX applications that they didn't have before. So when you think about it from that standpoint, SCO is actually helping to grow the application base for Linux overnight by 4,000 applications. SCO is making Linux more useful.-- Blake Stowell, 2003-03-04