IBM is orchestrating open-source attacks, says SCO's McBride
SCO Group chief executive officer Darl McBride has claimed that
IBM is stage-managing the open-source community's response to
his company's $3bn lawsuit against IBM over contributions to the
Linux source code.  "We have absolute direct knowledge of this.
If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don't
have IBM's name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by
IBM," he said.  When responding to criticism that his company is
trying its case against IBM in the press, McBride said that SCO
has simply been standing up for its rights when attacked.
However, SCO's public relations department has had a busy few
months. McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of
press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote on
Monday as proof that his company had become more relevant in the
high-technology industry.  SCO has issued 46 press releases
since filing suit against IBM on 7 March. Last year, it issued
only 29 press re