“As the world awaits the ramifications of The SCO Group’s Linux
intellectual property licence, Linux users with SCO shared
libraries installed for running Unix applications may have an
additional licence to deal with regardless of the outcome,
according to FreeBSD lead developer and Australian Unix User Group
president Greg Lehey.“Lehey said many third-party applications developed for SCO
systems rely on the proprietary libraries supplied with the
operating system. People have found it cheaper to run SCO-based
application software under Linux, but they use the SCO
libraries…”