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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. Hmmmm by BWJones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's just as likely that they're attacking themselves in their continued attempt to pump up their stock price

    Given their past behaviour, I would not doubt it.

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  2. Innocents? by devphaeton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Those poor innocents in SCO's netblock.

    NM the businesses that receive unsubstantiated threats of litigation and extortion by SCO, for something they claim IBM did.

    Fortunately, this isn't a huge PR disaster for Linux like it could be (or at least not yet).

    A few years ago, BS like this would have probably KILLED companies like Progeny, RedHat, SuSe, VALinux, etc....

    Who'd be the innocent bystanders then?

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  3. yeah man let me explain... by commodoresloat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was a DOS ATTACK on SCO. So, rather than SCO suing people for using DOS, hackers are installing DOS on computers running SCO Unix.