A year ago, SCO made the news by their then-latest undertaking against Open Source:
SCO Goes to Washington
SCO earlier this month sent a letter to the 535 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from company President and CEO Darl McBride, raising concerns about open-source software and its General Public License (GPL), the company confirmed on Wednesday……”I urge you to consider the other side because I believe that Open Source, as it is currently constituted, is a slippery slope,” McBride wrote to legislators. “It undermines our basic system of intellectual property rights, and it destroys the economic reason for innovation.”…
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455175,00.asp
Guess what SCO put in their latest memo to their partners?
Part 1 — An Introduction to Squid
(Part 2 will appear in next month’s issue of SCO Partner News)Looking for faster web browsing and reduced internet traffic? Then take a look at Squid, available from SCO Skunkware and 5.0.7 Maintenance Pack 3. Described on the Squid home page, www.squid-cache.org, as “a full-featured web proxy cache”, Squid can answer many concerns companies have when their employees are using the internet…
Source: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050113155918432
What is SCO so happening to be praising?
An Open-Source GPL-liscenced entity.
This is SCO people: a company whose entire platform relies on spreading misinformation and lies when they see fit. Then hypocritically completely reverting their stances on a need-by-need basis. In the same letter, SCO also praised their position on the Google Top Search Lists of 2004… though its a good thing they didn’t tell their investors exactly why.