"The idea of getting a SCO license had been under consideration prior to the IBM lawsuit. Then the suit came along. The lawsuit was seen as indirect supporting our position on the value of IP. Since other software vendors who depend on software licenses haven't been exactly falling all over themselves to support our position, seeing something that supported it was welcome. The idea of going ahead with the license was initially motivated by wanting to make a statement reinforcing everything we've been saying about IP. But if we didn't have any actual use for the license, it absolutely would not have happened. The fact that the license would make it easier to enhance future versions of Services for Unix was a deciding factor. The license was not seen as a way to underwrite SCO's legal fees."-- Microsoft SOURCE, 2003-05-23