NewsForge: SCO: Inside 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
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) 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.

“Darl McBride, SCO’s CEO, couldn’t agree more. ‘It’s interesting
to wake up in the morning because you never know what will happen
on a given day. You realize you’re in the middle of the hurricane.
I was brought in to run this company, and then when we decided to
start protecting our IP, our first decision was whether we were
going to fight or get taken out early. Since we made that decision
to fight for our property rights, as we unravel the yarn, it just
becomes bigger than you thought it could possibly be going
in…'”

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