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Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears

Elektroschock writes: "Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast. Netcraft has its own funny remarks in a dogfood article." Some of you might get a cackle out of the third solution.

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  1. Bombs away! by shystershep · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our new "previously unknown Linux Thought Leader" overlord!

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  2. Fourth solution is even funnier than the third... by bc90021 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far. ;)

    "Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."

    (And yes, I read the whole thing. ;) )

  3. Point it to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not just put multiple A records on the sco domain, as to spread the load across multiple servers. Besides, there will be enough traffic to take down many, many sites. Here's a short list, in order of importance...

    kernel.org (and its mirrors)
    groklaw.net
    ibm.com
    redhat.com
    suse.c om
    novell.com
    sourceforge.net
    slashdot.org
    lin ux.com
    apple.com
    sco.org (When we're finished, we'll be all you can see)

  4. Netcraft confirms by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.

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  5. You know you're unpopular when by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the entire world starts to DDOS you, to see if an expected DDOS is taking place yet [huge grin :-] ... A company that monitors uptime starts a deathwatch on your site ... That same company publically ridicules you on their homepage :-)

    Simon

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  6. Re:Fourth solution is even funnier than the third. by Elektroschock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the bomb on Utah? Aren't they all Christians in Utah? So I leave it to the Lord to punish SCO. Eternal doom proposed.

  7. Re:www.sco.com hosted on FreeBSD by Metasquares · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, but I'm sure Darl's already hard at work.

  8. SCO Site Search by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Search for: Liars And Thieves *** Sorry, but search returned no results. Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling. *** Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd

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  9. Best Solution: by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux geeks reveal that they've secretly controlled satellites in order to build a "Death Star" out of existing space debris. (you think the hubble is busted? Ha! We just borrowed some parts 'cause we needed some lenses and a gyroscope).

    This "Death Star" goes Independence Day on SCO Land with pinpoint accuracy -- McBride castrated before being zapped like an ant under a magnifying lens.

    Sir Gates and the Knights of the Old Republicans wage war against Geekdom because of this weapon of mass destruction. They device a plan to send a Mac to the death star in order to introduce a virus.

    Upon pitching the idea to Steve Jobs, the poor man laughs himself to death, leaving Gates and Ballmer (in their Matrix outfits) to have their tablet PC plugged into the Linux-powered "Laser" via Samba.

    The XP Tablet-PC edition spreads like a cancer through the ext3 filesystem resulting in many "I Told You So" comments by Reiser.

    Linus, finally sick of all these events, sheds his impartial nature and embraces his dark side. Finally teaches everything he knows to that bleach-blonde IBM Commercial kid and dubs him Darth Tux. Geeks around the world cede their control of the Death Star to Darth Tux, who shoots down both Washingtons and proceeds to carve his face onto Mt. Rushmore.

    Darth Tux declared supreme leader, quoted as saying "Choice is good...as long as you choose Linux" Proceeds to create his own distro -- Slim Shady Linux.

    Geeks install distro, wave their hands skyward in apathy, and enjoy the new era of computing.

  10. From SCO's website... by kirun · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.sco.com/mydoom/

    What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses? ...

    3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable

    This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?

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  11. Re:Fourth solution is even funnier than the third. by Natestradamus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++.

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  12. Re:Fourth solution is even funnier than the third. by QuasiCoLtd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Object-Oriented Religion?

  13. Re:Fourth solution is even funnier than the third. by Ian+Wolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh yeah. Back in the old days they used to have these whacky ideas about inheritance. It wasn't uncommon for children to have many parents.

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