In an interview last week, SCO chief executive officer Darl McBride complained of being picketed, targeted with crank telephone calls at 2 a.m., and even challenged to a fistfight by an SCO detractor.
"Terrorists do things designed to intimidate people, and we see a lot of that going on all the time--people trying to attack us or people that we're associated with," he said at the time. "If you look at a DoS attack, that's a form of cyberterrorism," he said. "When you're shutting people's Web sites down, you are impacting commerce. That's against the law."
Raymond and fellow open source advocate Bruce Perens condemned the attack, saying that the open source community would be better off compiling evidence against SCO's claims, rather than attacking SCO directly. "I think it's important that we hold the moral high ground here," said Perens. "We are the good guys. We are the ones who are having false claims made about us."
It's really, really hard for me to work up any sympatthy for McBride - but the sort of harrassment he's getting is beyond the pale - and it doesn't help. Rather, it makes him - and by extension his argument - seem more reasonable. If you engage in this sort of idiocy, realize that you are offering aid and comfort to SCO...
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