Reply #9: One more important point

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SCO is trying to get Linux users to pay them license fees to avoid being sued for infringing their supposed copyright.

This is roughly equivalent to an author claiming that a book by another author was plagiarized from his own, threatening that anyone who reads (!) the other author's book is violating his copyright, and then offering to sell people "licenses" so they can read the other author's book legally.

In other words, it's extortion, pure and simple.