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SCO Group Inc is preparing to take a Linux user to court to speed up the legal process in its claim Unix code has been illegally copied into Linux, and also encourage Linux users to take out a license for its intellectual property.

The company has signed one large customer up to its Intellectual Property License for Linux, but faces opposition from many more who believe SCO must prove its claims in a court of law before they will hand over the $700 per CPU for the license.

Speaking at SCO's Forum event in Las Vegas, president and CEO Darl McBride said SCO preparing to speed-up the legal process and convince the skeptics. "We are prepared to have this heard on a quicker basis in a customer environment if that's what it takes to quicken it up," he said.

This should roil the waters and make people even happier with SCO. The story so far:

• SCO sued IBM
• IBM sued SCO back
• The validity of the GPL may well get tested in court
• The whole field of throw patent violations at Open Source is awaiting validation

And we can all thank SCO for this big pile of fun. Swell