Of worms and penguins?

Another day, another e-mail worm. But unlike the creators of past worms, it looks like the writers of the latest one, known as MyDoom, are not going after Bill Gates and his fellow merry knights of Windows. Instead, they're targeting a little company known as SCO Group, a company that has made waves (and enemies) thanks to some high profile lawsuits it has filed in the past year. SCO Group claims to own many of the copyrights to the Unix operating system. The company is claiming that Linux, an open source operating system that is becoming increasingly popular with corporations, contains some Unix code.

Hence, SCO wants royalties. So it's suing IBM, which sell versions of Linux. It is also suing Novell, another company that sells Linux software, for slander. This issue has created a storm of controversy in the Linux community. Some say that SCO's lawsuits could slow the adoption of Linux, which after years of hype, is finally starting to emerge as a legitimate alternative to Windows.

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