"The SCO website appears to have been hacked over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. A page on the site displays a "SCO vs World" story which proclaims "Recently we found parts of our code in almost all Microsoft software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft and our legal department is working on that."

The hacked page goes on to say "Currently we are checking older MS-DOS sources. It's obvious, that all while (1){ do_something; } and for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) loops came from our code."

Attacks on SCO have not been uncommon since the small, largely inconsequential firm began trying to intimidate Linux customers, Linux backers, and Linux firms with litigation and unsubstantiated claims. Some of the claims made by SCO have been insanely bogus, such as the one that asserted Linux contained a million lines of code stolen from SCO."

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