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SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scoop-of-sco-every-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The SCO-IBM-Linux controversy has certainly caused quite a stir. Unfortunately the vigilantes conducting the DOS attacks against SCO are harming innocent by-standers as described in this e-Week story. " Choice conspiracy theory quote: 'Given SCO's behavior recently, it's just as likely that they're attacking themselves in their continued attempt to pump up their stock price'

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  1. DOS? Perhaps not. by Picass0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://news.netcraft.com/

    The SCO site has been up during business hours in Utah, but has since failed again. Many news sites carried the story that Eric Raymond had spoken to agroup responsible for a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the www.sco.com site and that they agreed to stop. However it appears that this may have been a hoax, or they subsequently changed their minds, or another person decided to continue the attack, or that the timeout on the attack has not yet been reached.

    In a similar situation 10 days ago Microsoft chose to deploy Akamai's caching service, which has successfully averted any outages.

    Akamai would be more dependable at warding off Distributed Denial of Service attacks than favours from Eric Raymond, but concievably SCO may have difficulty swallowing its pride and buying a service that uses tens of thousands of Linux servers, for which Akamai presumably has not purchased a SCO licence.

  2. Economics by luzrek · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I think that if I were and ISP, and SCO was continually being hammered by denial of service attacks, I would kick them off my servers. If I were a customer of said ISP, or shared the same chunks of cable, I would look for a different way to get service.

    Not that I want to endorce vigialantism, but DOS attacks on SCO and its partners could be used to stop other corporations from doing business with them. Perhaps that is the DOS attackers' goal. However, I do not think that the DOS attacks are productive to the goal of getting rid of SCO's attacks on Linux.

    IMO, a much better strategy would be for everyone using Linux to start buying SCO stock, and then, as a stock holder action, vote all of SCO's patents and copyrights into the public domain (and then disolve the company).

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  3. Eh? by MrKinkade · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since when was there conclusive proof that SCO were actually being hit by DoS/DDoS?

    I remember reading elsewhere that it's entirely possible that they've just taken down there site of their own accord.

  4. Net packet loss by pknut · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've noticed that the net seems to have been particularly slow recently. Checking on Xaffire Inc.'s Internet Average it's obvious that there are a few problems. Could this be a combination of the various DDoS's occuring at the moment and the recent worms?

  5. SCO Source by El · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the SCO website: SCOsource is a new business division to manage its UNIX(R) System intellectual property. The charter of the new division is to create new and innovative licensing programs to meet the changing demands of today's market and to protect its intellectual property asset.

    SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back 1969, when the UNIX System was created at Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the patents, copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System. The SCO source division will continue to offer traditional UNIX System licenses to preserve, protect and enhance shareholder value.

    Darl, I can tell you're lying... your lips are moving! Care to list exactly which patents SCO owns?

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  6. Re:I Disagree by scrote-ma-hote · · Score: 5, Interesting
    IAAMS (Med Student). Basically what he is doing is showing off. But more to the point.

    1. LSD doesn't normally cause delusions.
    2. Cocaine and amphetamines do. They work on a part of the brain, that has to do with the neurotransmitter (a chemical signal) called dopamine.
    3. The way that most anti-psychotic (i.e. anti-schizophrenia drugs work, is to block a type of receptor (the bit that gets the chemical signal), called the D2 receptor.
    4. From this, it is postulated that the delusions you get with schizophrenia are related to having too much dopamine acting on those receptors.
    5. Therefore, cocaine and amphetamines, which increase dopamine at the receptors, probably cause the same delusions as schizophrenia.
    6. There might be other chemicals involved too.

    That probably confused you just as much, but I hope that makes the gibberish make sense.