SCO, the company that anyone into free software hates, has suffered something of a hack attack. Somebody has made their unofficial motto official by cracking their website and replacing their banner logo with an improved version containing the words “SCO, We own all your code. Pay us all your money”. I doubt the perpetrators were real Linux geeks, had they been, it would no doubt have read “All your code are belong to us” (if you don’t understand that don’t worry about it, some of you will.)

I don’t approve of any form of unauthorised cracking, however I find myself unable to shed any tears for the once great UNIX company that has become nothing but a litigation company trying to use lawyers to reap in money from companies like IBM that support Linux.

SCO took many many hours to fix the problem, so I can only assume that none of the lawyers that work there understand HTML/XHTML. You can see a screen shot of what the “truer” version of the site looked like here.

Franki

This article was posted on Monday, November 29th, 2004 at 5:45 pm