All this success started to piss off the software vendors. Microsoft, Sun, Oracle—they all hated the program. Their employees accused iDefense of inviting hackers to break into their products. And as the program picked up, iDefense’s customers started pestering the tech companies to patch their systems—and fast. Suddenly the biggest tech companies in the world were being forced to work on someone else’s timetable. And they went after iDefense with a vengeance.
