[US] SCO Catapults FUD onto Individual Users

ComputerWorld: 'SCO claims Unix copyrights, offers special Unix licenses to Linux users'

InternetNews: 'SCO Escalates Linux Battle'

Wired: 'SCO-Buy License, Avoid Suit'

EWeek: 'SCO Expands Attack on Linux'

NetworkWorldFusion: 'SCO Copyrights Unix, offers Protection to Linux Users'

InternetWeek: 'SCO: Users Must Pay Us a License to Run Linux'

TechWeb: 'SCO Gets Unix Copyrights'

CRN: 'VARs Could Be Liable For SCO Copyright Infringement'

The rumors are running wild, the commentators are having a field day. One rumor has it that if SCO is successful, they will next be researching a possible claim that they have patented breathing, and will be asking individuals to pony up every time they do it. "Intellectual property is valuable and needs to be respected and paid for," says SCO president Darl McBride.

As one Russian commentator put it, "More and more it seems to me that SCO management should explain which bad mushrooms they ate." link (Russian) Linus Torvald just keeps on smiling and says, "What, Me Worry?"

- Willy Smith, reporting from Costa Rica