"SCO, in the middle of a $1 billion-plus lawsuit with IBM, has sent letters to 1,500 of the largest global enterprises, warning them that it believes Linux infringed on SCO's Unix intellectual property rights.

Now SCO is considering asking business users for a fee for every copy of Linux they run distributed by any of the vendors, including Red Hat Inc., SuSE Inc., Debian GNU Linux and Turbolinux Inc., sources said, adding that individual users would likely not have to pay."

SCO are bad. more details This would certainly help kill Linux, if people start having to pay for it! Especially if they had to pay SCO for it, when SCO didn't even make it!