September 3, 2003

The EFF has issued a congressional lobby action alert against SCO for their unfounded claims to copyrights in the Linux operating system and abusive tactics to collect royalties from individual Linux users on those grounds. While all this should really take is a legal action strong enough to force SCO to demonstrate proof, end users and small companies using Linux do not have the money or power to bring such an action about, and current actions may take many more months to resolve. SCO is attempting to collect in the meantime, potentially supporting its case in larger actions, so the EFF action calls for "the Commerce Committee" to intervene.