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NY Times Reveals SCO/Canopy Group Hypocrisy
rjamestaylor writes "The New York Times reports that 'SCO, the company that touched off a computer industry slugfest last spring by suing I.B.M. over its use of Unix software, may find itself embarrassed by a similar claim against a company once related to SCO.' Note that the reporter, John Markoff, ties together Noorda's Canopy Group companies, revealing that: 'Canopy is now SCO's largest shareholder, with two seats on the company's board, and has played an important role, analysts say, in shaping SCO's legal strategy.' He even quotes SCOSource shill Laura Didio as saying, 'All roads lead to Canopy...'"
Since it is becoming more and more clear that Canopy is pulling the strings behind the SCO lawsuit, is it time, as a community, to put the heat on Canopy as a whole? Some of the other Canopy holdings are a bit of a surprise, given the direction SCO is going. Canopy happens to be big investors in Trolltech, the makers of QT. There's also some company named Linux Networx, a builder of Linux-based clusters. There are many other companies listed right on Canopy's web page. Perhaps some polite but strongly worded emails from Linux community members with relationships to these companies (e.g., KDE developers, etc.) might convince Canopy that their current direction will be detrimental to their larger business interests. Maybe it's even time to talk about a boycott of these companies' products. It's not like SCO and Canopy are playing clean here, after all. Thoughts?