The Register: SCO Blinks–Bill Us When You Can

“SCO is to suspend ‘indefinitely’ its demand that SGI pay it
UNIX royalties. Perhaps more importantly for Linux users, it’s not
going to bill end users either. Businesses who run Linux don’t have
to worry about an invoice from SCO, or at least not yet. The
Utah-based company had said it was looking for $699 up to $4,999
for servers and $199 for desktops. Now it’s delaying sending out
the invoices.

“SCO claims to have found a couple of mugs who wanted pay the
license fees without receiving an invoice. But as analyst Gordon
Haff of Illuminata told IDG, billing end-users exposes SCO to
counter-suits, at least in the litigious USA…”

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