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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.
Let me be the first to set up an 'anti-bounty' that will pay $300000 to anyone who can name the Doom virus creator but promises not to tell SCO. I'll be setting up a pay pal account shortly to start receiving donations to this fund.
I think SCO did this. I think they put up the money as a front to look eager and they wrote the virus to look like they are being hurt by the big bad open source community again.