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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. snort by dnotj · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    you can pick your friends

    you can pick your nose

    but you can't pick your neighbor on the internet...

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    No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
  2. What's so choice about that? by twitter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    SCO DoS themselves and their neighors? No, I can't believe it. SCO is utterly dependent on it's network connection to support it's one or two customers. It makes no sense. I mean, why would a company that claims copyright infringment not reveal the sections of publically published code which are infringing by sending cease and dissist letters? This makes no sense. Why would Microsoft pay licensing to SCO for Linux rights when they make nothing for Linux and continue to say they never will? This makes no sense either.

    Oh wait, now I remember, this is all one big FUD campaign by Microsoft. They are funding SCO's nonsensical and suicidal actions in order to smear free software as somehow dishonest.

    The "Slashdot effect" is a similar thing. Once a story drops off Slashdot's front page, traffic to any site drops back two orders of magnitude to normal. I imagine that much of that traffic is DoS.

    Yes, Microsoft's standing is so low that I can say these things and believe them. Their represntatives have filled billboards with crap and denied their identity, written letters to senators for other (and sometimes dead) people on their behalf, created fictional characters for a "Mac Switcher" astroturf campaign when no real such person could be found and have even infiltrated meetings of grade shcool teachers with explicit direction to conceal their identity to gain trust. No lie seems beyond them and they are happy to harm others if it will do them some good.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  3. SCO DOS? by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wouldn't worry about SCO DOS, I'm sure Microsoft will insert subtle incompatibilities so that Windows 3.1 won't run on it.

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    taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
  4. Re:Who takes the fall? by phlipant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh, fudge!