Technocrat, which is the Web site where Bruce Perens initially (and correctly) predicted Microsoft's yet-to-come 'FUD campaign', is reporting, through Bruce himself, that the "strong feeling on this issue seems to be very widespread". Over 2000 people have signed his Open Letter. Meanwhile, ComputerWorld has just published an article titled "Microsoft and Novell pull a SCO". Below lies a snippet.

The shape of this agreement suggests that Microsoft and Novell have learned from the best, the corporate strategic masterminds at The SCO Group. The scheme there, which you may recall Microsoft championed early and loudly, was to declare that Linux incorporated source code protected by SCO Group copyrights. This declaration gave SCO the power to send out threatening letters to software vendors and customers. The letters said, in essence, that the lucky recipient could pay SCO a license fee now, or risk having its name added to the big list of defendants in its case and pay far more.

As mentioned previously, this type of comparison is intended to stir up strong feelings and reactions. This may be an overstatement that instills fear, if not a case of 'trolling' for traffic, so you are advised take it with a grain of salt.