SCO was predicting that revenues from its SCOsource licences for Linux would generate billions of dollars for the company, chief executive Darl McBride testified in a deposition on 27 March 2007.
The company did "a lot of work" to create models projecting potential revenues.
"It's just a ridiculously big number," McBride said, according to a court transcript (PDF) posted on the Groklaw legal website.
"I guess we could get finite on whether the number is $5bn or $1bn or $6bn. The point is that it was a lot of money for the company, and the size of company that we were."