None of SCO's pleadings stipulate that future damages are barred. And "those who have presumably infringed in the past" couldn't "hide it" already by ditching Linux altogether? Tell me another good joke.
That's a good point, but it's also a "hiding solution" of a completely different magnitude. It would probably be cheaper for most such organizations to just pay off SCO instead of abandoning Linux in favor of another OS, which they presumably would have to buy. So that solution for hiding the evidence is probably not economically practical.
And I'm trying hard to ignore your "Tell me another good joke" type responses in the interests of maintaining a civil debate.