> IANAL, but I imagine if they won this battle in court, they would have > the power to force the Linux companies to give them their customer lists > and force their customers to pay. > > > SCO claims that IBM and Redhat have forced them to go after the "end > users" as SCO called them. > > Their plan is to offer a Licensing Scheme and sue everyone that doesn't > purchase a license for a kernel 2.4 or later version of Linux. > Don't know why they'd do this as most linux ppl would swich to another Unix. Me. personaly I'd swich to free or NetBSD if this happens. Somehow I seriously doubt it as they would have to Prove linux STOLE the code.
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