SCO wasn't losing money on sales -- IIRC their cheapest product at the time (bare-bones SysV 3.2 SCO UNIX) sold for upwards of $600 without the dev tools or ext

SCO wasn't losing money on sales -- IIRC their cheapest product at the time (bare-bones SysV 3.2 SCO UNIX) sold for upwards of $600 without the dev tools or extras: Open Desktop retailed for a minimum of $1200 in its most pared-back form -- but the $250 licensing fees put a floor under SCO that made it impossible for them to compete as a desktop OS for the general public, as opposed to enterprises that expected to spend $3000-4000 per seat on tech support and licensing for every employee, every year.