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SCO: Inside the Hurricane
August 27, 2003 (8:00:00 AM) - 6 years, 2 months ago
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by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols with additional reporting by Joe Barr
Between hate mail from open source supporters and love notes from investors, life isn't easy inside SCO. There have been more hated technology companies; IBM and Microsoft immediately come to mind. But they weren't pounded earlier this week by a successful <SLASH HREF="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2784023,00.html" ID="47b62478ebf89ca7769d8db0d3f5fa41" TITLE="" TYPE="LINK">Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS</SLASH>) attack despite the efforts of open source leaders like Eric Raymond to stop it. And no one's written a Nigerian spam parody for their CEOs. At the same time, though, some stock buyers love SCO's aggressive Unix intellectual property stance and its Linux licensing schemes. Say what you will about the merits or demerits of the case, life at SCO is like being in the eye of the hurricane.
Between hate mail from open source supporters and love notes from investors, life isn't easy inside SCO. There have been more hated technology companies; IBM and Microsoft immediately come to mind. But they weren't pounded earlier this week by a successful <SLASH HREF="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2784023,00.html" ID="47b62478ebf89ca7769d8db0d3f5fa41" TITLE="" TYPE="LINK">Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS</SLASH>) attack despite the efforts of open source leaders like Eric Raymond to stop it. And no one's written a Nigerian spam parody for their CEOs. At the same time, though, some stock buyers love SCO's aggressive Unix intellectual property stance and its Linux licensing schemes. Say what you will about the merits or demerits of the case, life at SCO is like being in the eye of the hurricane.
