SCO, in yet another incredible move in their claims about intellectual property in the Linux kernel, will be sending invoices to companies currently using any flavour of Linux. SCO’s claim is, of course, that since they believe the Linux kernel contains their IP, these companies owe them licensing fees for that property. Let the class action lawsuits begin!

This is, in fact, illegal. You cannot invoice a company for something that you did not directly provide to them. Note that this sort of thing is actually listed on the national fraud alert website.

Will they never learn?

Posted on 3 September 2003