[antiRepublicrat]

Oh the horror, SCO wishes to actually PAY their programmers

Actually, they're having to entice programmers with cash in order to get them to develop software for their platform instead of Linux or Windows. Whether that software will be proprietary or GPL is irrelevant.

[TechJunkYard]

That, and they need to put something credible on the balance sheet that they can "grow" with money laundered from any future "pipe fairies".