…and that, apparently, is what SCO CEO Darl McBride is building his company's long term strategy on–rendered pig fat.

McBride, who a just a year ago was pimping for UnitedLinux and hoping to use SCO's installed base to push Linux into the small and medium business markets in earnest, is now claiming that all his former friends in the Linux community of being orchestrated by IBM in their attacks on his “poison pill” strategy for profits from Linux.

As the “evidence” presented by SCO of infringement on its intellectual property starts to fall apart slowly in the light of day, McBride has resorted to dumping piles of press clippings on stage at SCOForum to prove how relevant the lawsuit has made SCO. And rumor has it that some customers are considering filing racketeering charges against SCO for extortion of licensing fees prior to proof of their case.

So the question is, just who is going to have to use that lard that Darl's throwing around to grease up and bend over?