The Register: Uncle Sam May Need to Pay for Linux

“The next target in SCO’s Linux licensing hunt may well be the
White House.

“Netcraft shows the White House Web site humming away on the
very Linux servers that have come under SCO’s watchful eye. White
House staffers are big open soucre fans using both Linux and
Apache–two of free software’s finest products.

“SCO has said that any large scale Linux users running on the
2.4 kernel or above will either have to pay a licensing fee or
suffer the legal consequences. Open source advocates say that SCO’s
charges are without merit, but for now, the attack is on. Along
with the 1,500 letters SCO has sent out to corporate users, it may
finger the White House next, should it turn out the government runs
on a recent version of Linux…”

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