Revenge Of The Nerds

In the real world, Brenda Banks is a 54-year-old grandmother in Greer, S.C., a former warehouse supervisor who teaches rubber-stamping arts
and crafts classes. But online she transforms into “br3n,” a passionate user of Linux software who cruises Web sites posting smash-mouth messages
about SCO Group. So far Banks has posted more than 1,500 messages on SCO’s Yahoo! message board alone–including five on Thanksgiving.

“I feel very strongly about it,” says Banks, who runs Linux on a six-year-old Acer home computer. “They want to come and stab
Linux. It’s just not right.”