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Here's an example of how stupid it is:
Lets say you own and apartment building and rent out 4 units. One day I come along and tell the world I own the apartment building and take you to court over it. I then send letters to each tenant saying they owe me rent.

Now the tenants have two choices:

one pay me the rent (this I would say is very stupid)

or wait until the court fight is over and pay the rent to the real owner.

Ether way I could not claim the past rent from the tenants prior to the end of the court battle. If anything I might be able to sue the old owner for the past rent but the tenants would be protected by law. Same thing goes for software. The current users of Linux could not be charged for past use of the software because they are protected by law. SCO can't charge fees because it hasn't proven they own anything yet. Once over if (and that's a huge if) they win the best the can do is start charging fees from that point on. I would also like to point out that any SCO owned code found in Linux will be removed and they will still not be able to charge fees for the new releases (assuming they ever find anything they own). SCO at that point might be able to sue for some damages from companies who released the old versions but the users will still be protected by law.
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Re: These Criminals  wadeprater | 03/02/04
how about a real solution  ryusen | 03/02/04
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my favorite  tic swayback | 03/01/04
Yeah, except...  keyguy13@... | 03/02/04
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to be derived from UNIX System V  NemesisNL | 03/02/04
funny thing abotu this...  ryusen | 03/02/04
This is just Timed FUD  wackoae | 03/01/04
BSD  r0ckflite | 03/02/04
Here is the Good News for LINUX ..SCO shut down..  Northwolf | 03/02/04
How it is going to go in court ...  David Mohring | 03/01/04
If ALL Linux users would sue SCO at the same time .. + a class action (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/01/04
Not necessary  Eggs Ackley_z | 03/02/04
Bizarre  StorageGuru | 03/02/04
Lawyers and the truth  openMind | 03/02/04
Linux is wrongly accused.  Vily Clay | 03/02/04
Check the facts  StorageGuru | 03/02/04
This will be historic, the first time an end user was sued instead of the  DonnieBoy | 03/01/04
I think they are the second.  irjeremy@... | 03/01/04
Yes, they will sue the end user if they did not buy it.  DonnieBoy | 03/02/04
New Business Model: Sue thousands at a time  irjeremy@... | 03/01/04
Me! Me! sue me!!!!!  nite_w0lf | 03/01/04
No fair!  Chad_z | 03/01/04
And if your done with Chad  NemesisNL | 03/02/04
suse 9.0  driv101 | 03/02/04
I'd rather have SCO sue me  Chad_z | 03/01/04
Wait till GPL code owners start sueing SCO(nt)  nite_w0lf | 03/02/04
This free publicity just keeps creating more and more Linux Converts...  Plain Logic | 03/01/04
Hey little kid  PmAc_z | 03/02/04
If you think about it  Rick_K | 03/02/04
maybe  ryusen | 03/02/04
This is just Timed FUD  wackoae | 03/01/04
This isn't the normal FUD  Chad_z | 03/01/04
Why is it  michael-t | 03/01/04
FUD at warp 10  NoB$ | 03/01/04
Corrections  Richard Flude | 03/01/04
Oh I forgot  Richard Flude | 03/01/04
Empty Courtroom  DarbyOhara | 03/02/04
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business as usual with MS  Rick_K | 03/02/04
PmAc  Uralbas | 03/02/04
so...  ryusen | 03/02/04
"business as usual..." means  Chris.Papoudaris@... | 03/02/04
The astonishment never ends...  BitTwiddler | 03/02/04
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Yes, let's have MORE and MORE secrets  BitTwiddler | 03/02/04
Desperation  George Mitchell | 03/02/04
with Microsoft Backing  brenthawkinsmd | 03/02/04
Pleeeezzzee  darrin.broin@... | 03/02/04
Actually...  BitTwiddler | 03/02/04
re : Pleeeezzzee  JWatson77 | 03/02/04
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SCO gangsters  nograin | 03/02/04
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All I Know For Sure Is  B_HI | 03/02/04
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