SCO Targets US Government, TiVo

An anonymous reader writes "According to SCO, if you have a TiVo set-top box, or those models of Sharp Zaurus which use Linux, someone now owes them $32, since the company wants money 'for each embedded system using Linux.' SCO also says government agencies must pay up to $699 for each copy of Linux that they use."

Comments

Smells like RICO

[sn00ker]

Now, I'm not any kind of expert on US law (other than knowing that the DMCA blows chunks pretty hard), but this latest claim by SCO sounds a lot like racketeering. Since they're throwing claims around all over the place it'd be a federal case, too.
As Singh said in the article, it's extortion based on fraud and that sounds mighty like a corrupt, racketeering effort to me. I think that federal charges would take the wind out of McBribe's sails.