Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law. "There is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress," SCO CEO Darl McBride wrote in an open letter posted on SCO's Web site Wednesday. Advertisement: The letter argues that Linux's GPL (GNU General Public License) software license is "exactly opposite in its effect from the 'copyright' laws adopted by the...