[Joe Bonforte]

And "those who have presumably infringed in the past" couldn't "hide it" already by ditching Linux altogether?

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In the eyes of the law it doesn't mitigate the fact that they COULD ditch Linux.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

FreeBSD is another possibility.