eWeek: SCO’s Linux Case: Is Winning Everything?

“As the SCO Group prepares to battle at least one Linux user in
court, legal experts said that the company’s strategy is less about
the legal merits of its claims and more about compelling additional
Linux users into paying its license fees.

“Earlier this week, the SCO Group said it planned within 90 days
to sue a Linux user over copyright infringement related to its Unix
System V code that it alleges is included in Linux. The move marked
an expansion of the Lindon, Utah-based company’s legal wrangle over
Linux, which began with its high profile lawsuit against IBM.

“‘They knocked on one door and didn’t get any money, and now
they’re moving to the next door,’ said Phil Albert, a partner at
intellectual property law firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP,
in San Francisco. ‘Part of their strategy may be that it doesn’t
really matter if they have any copyright claim…'”

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