Here's a rough translation again... my english is not that good, but I guess I beat babelfish :-))

10.000,-- euro court order against the SCO Group GmbH

On August 28, the regional court in Munich, Germany, has issued an order against the SCO Group GmbH to pay 10'000 Euro.

According to the company "tarent GmbH" and "Linux Tag E.V.", SCO did violate an order which was issued against them. This order did prohibit them to state that Linux contains IP of SCO which was illegaly obtained. This order was issued in may/june 2003.

The court did accuse SCO of a "negligent maintainance of their homepage on which - after the first order had been issued - one could still read that "sers who use Linux may be liable for violating rights of SCO".

The regional ourt in Munich did underline that such a statement is strongly damaging the business which one has to look at with the highest concern. Under no circumstances a company should do business by creating concerns and fear with publishing assertions without substance. Tarent's lawyer said: "Therefore, we will examine how big the damage is SCO caused for companies which are active in the linux-business and will call SCO to account for these damages."

He further states that the SCO-politic is part of a campaign, and the fact that German courts have now repeadedly shoot the bolt against such tactics shows what one should think about that.

SCO has to pay this fine now to the state of bavaria, otherwise, its managing director has to go to jail for 10 days.