SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest

Performer Guy writes "This SCO press release indicates that they are offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest & conviction of the MyDoom DDoS worm authors. Let's hope they catch them. Not merely because MyDoom is one of the most mindless attacks on our internet infrastructure in memory, but also when they pay up it'll be less cash for SCO's litigation engine." Thanks to Tin Foil Hat and prostoalex for pointing out links at ComputerWorld and CNET, too. Related to this: stealth.c writes "Bruce Perens has written a letter to the Open Source community, discouraging us from cheering on the MyDOOM virus, as it would falsely implicate the FOSS communities and almost certainly cause the success of the virus writer's mission of discrediting these movements. This letter is also posted on NewsForge and on Groklaw." Unfortunately, with columns like this one blaming the worm on "some ticked-off Linux fan", it needs to be said.

Comments

Let's do the math

[Joey Patterson]

$250K Bounty

Let's see...

$250,000/$699 =~ 357 copies of SCO/Linux

Fine print

[LostCluster]

Anybody see the details? That $250k is made up of Linux IP licenses and SCOX stock...

Re:I know this is meant to be funny but.

[brucmack]

No, $125,000 would be 50%. Parent suggested .50% :)

Re:I know this is meant to be funny but.

[Grey Ninja]

heh... I think you missed the decimal point there. ;-)

Re:I know this is meant to be funny but.

[Temporal]

No no, you misread. He didn't say 50%. He said .50%. That comes to $312.50 a year. That's probably a lot more than what the guy makes in his parents' basement, though.

Sad...

[Majestix]

While others have said what i'm going to say and my posting will amount to little more than a drop of water in a river...

Cheering on the writer of this virus just makes us all look bad. And gives SCO ammunition (whether real or imagined) to press its case.

This is very bad timing considering SCO's lobbying of Congress. All we need is for Congress to have this virus and SCO's inflamatory words in mind at the same time, to cause the Open Source movement headaches.

I hope someone catches the childish bastard(s) that wrote this virus. Never mind SCO's childish antics. It doesn't help that someone stooped to their level (or lower).