Article from InfoWorld.com (English)

"The program will be announced 'within the next month or so,' according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company will announce what he calls a 'precursor' to this program in a press conference with SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride and SCO's high-profile attorney David Boies, of the firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

"A statement announcing the event said that SCO executives will provide details on 'opportunities for Linux customers.' That does not bode well for Linux users, according to one analyst. 'Opportunities for Linux customers jumped out at me,' said Illuminata. analyst Gordon Haff. 'Opportunities are rarely good news.'

"While the majority of Linux customers probably would not participate in a SCO licensing program, Haff predicted some companies might be willing to pay SCO for the security of knowing they would not be sued. SCO is 'hoping that even if 99 percent of Linux customers laugh in their face, that there will be sufficient large companies who, for what is presumably going to be a relative drop in the bucket of their IT budgets, can potentially eliminate a cloud over their heads,' he said."

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More FUD and further deconstruction of the English language from the friendly folks at SCO. Who's going to be the first one to pony up and get license #00000001? We'll see it on framed and for sale Ebay in a couple of years.

- Willy Smith, reporting from Costa Rica