USA Today: SCO Irks Just About Everyone in Tech–Except Microsoft

“The topic du jour in technology is SCO Group–not just that
company’s legal threat to Linux, but the palace intrigue that
surrounds it, the passions stirred and the who’s-in-bed-with-whom
relationships that get more complicated than a Behind The Music
episode about Fleetwood Mac.

“First, if you’re going to bring this up at a Silicon Valley
dinner party, you need to know that SCO is never pronounced S-C-O.
It’s ‘skoh.’ Rhymes with Homer Simpson’s exclamation,'”Doh!’

“SCO is making headlines because it has pulled off an unusual
feat: It has made nearly everyone in tech, and nearly every
corporation that buys technology, spitting-nails mad at it. I say
nearly everyone because Microsoft likes SCO the way the U.S. liked
Saddam back when Iraq was at war with Iran. The enemy of my enemy
is my friend–that kind of thing…”

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