Submission + - Revealed - SCO's deal with EV1Servers
Alioth writes: "You may remember that back in 2004, EV1Servers - a major low-cost dedicated server hosting company based in Houston - who had built their business up with Linux servers, made a deal with SCO over Linux intellectual property. This was widely interpreted as EV1Servers stabbing the Linux community in the back by funding SCO's anti-Linux litigation. Finally, the whole sorry story has come out - Robert Marsh, the former CEO of EV1Servers, has submitted his evidence to the SCO vs IBM trial, and it looks like he'd been had. Not only did he feel that SCO had conned him once he discovered the full facts - but he also discovered his customers had an entirely different reaction than he expected - they left in droves in disgust at EV1Servers helping SCO to litigate, rather than remaining - Marsh had hoped customers would have felt protected by EV1Servers having a SCO Linux license. The whole sorry story is online at Groklaw. In summary - SCO wanted $2M in licensing fees off EV1Servers, but EV1Servers ultimately paid $800K. EV1Servers no longer exists as an independent company - it was taken over by ThePlanet earlier this year."