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In 2002, the Caldera International [[board of directors]], including [[Ralph Yarro III|Ralph Yarro]], named [[Darl McBride]], formerly with [[Franklin-Covey]], as [[CEO]]. Almost immediately he saw the value of Caldera International as being primarily the value of SCO{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}. The company was renamed [[The SCO Group]]. [[Ransom Love]] was reassigned to work exclusively on United Linux. After he completed this, he left the company to join [[Progeny Linux Systems]] which was aiming to create a professional [[Debian]]. He remained there in the capacity of a [[board of directors|board]] member and advisor<ref name="Progeny"/> until 30 April 2007 when Progeny ceased operations.

McBride began to focus on SCO's copyrights. One of McBride's first acts as CEO was to collect $600,000 in back licensing fees that were owed to Caldera International. He cleaned up various Linux-related licensing issues allowing for a new round of financing.<ref name="Shankland_2002"/> Soon thereafter he made strong [[SCO v. IBM|accusations]] that Linux had infringed copyrights SCO held on Unix; they claimed to have purchased these copyrights from [[Novell]]. Novell [[SCO v. Novell|denied selling them the Unix copyright]], prompting them to sue for [[slander of title]]. SCO also initiated lawsuits against [[IBM]] and [[AutoZone]], alleging copyright infringements through the use or distribution of Linux; none of these lawsuits have been resolved. SCO has created a division, [[SCOsource]], that owns and licenses their intellectual property; a desktop license is $699.