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BBC Links Linux To MyDoom
minus_273 writes "It seems the BBC has a story on their front page titled 'Linux cyber-battle turns nasty', very specifically linking Linux users to the MyDoom virus. Some lines to note: 'If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source). So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge.'"
You can bet that if Karl Rove worked for Microsoft, there'd be at least 50 different "LUNIX RUL3Z, M$ IS T3H SUX0R" worms already out there, all written by people on the Rove payroll.
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We are not paid to give an informative unbaised opinion. The BBC however are,we (brits) pay them to give us the facts, the truth.
Hope springs eternal. No chance there of money back for failure to deliver the goods. The Gilligan/Kelly/WMD affair is a sign (not the first) that it's pretty hopeless to expect the truth from them. They brush aside complaints.
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My bet is that the most people here who have written the BBC trough their complaint form have confirmed the story. Sad but true.
./ crowd.
.. yeah what?.. buyers of the Linux OS? or managers who would decide between Linux or Windows?
/. crowd speaks for it self! No self-reflection possible, only the knee-jerk reaction that it couldn't possibly be a Linux user that wrote such a virus... or the long and windling spouting of arguments which couldnt possibly be true when you are an outsider (ie. not a slashdot reader).
I mean COME ON. If you have lots of people writing obvious non-sense about how MyDoom was written to discredit Linux rather than to hurt SCO then the BBC has a new article laid out for them by the
The most funny part about this is that all you guys really think that such an article by the BBC would influence
The reactions of the
Think about that for a change!
(and offcourse this will be modded down)
Baseless claims about Microsoft are not the end of the list. Here on /. we see all sorts of baseless claims using the BBC as a source all of the time too. Odd that they are not taken as gospel on this story huh?
Next thing you know old Robert Fisk will be working at the BBC providing the same quality work as he did from Baghdad International Airport.
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My, my. The BBC have been fucking things up recently.
First they have blood on their hands over the death of that UK whistleblower ( and it is now being suggested that his death may have been something other than suicide, implicating the BBC further ).
Next they publish a story that really could only have come 1 of 2 places: Microsoft, or good old SCO themselves.
I used to like what I saw of the BBC ( which admittedly wasn't much - being in Australia, we mainly get 20 year old documentaries ). But now I'm starting to wonder whether I should just stick with fucking Murdock's right-wing bullshit...
Have you READ ./ recently? This place sounds like happy hour at the Tinfoil Hat Association's yearly barn dance. It's also an extremely large cross section of Linux users and developers. Put two and two together, and you end up with this story.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
No, it's equating certain elements within a community as criminals. Do you have ANY doubt whatsoever that MyDoom was perpetrated by pissed Linux users? I don't, and if you look around neither does the /. majority.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
If a Linux worm was written that attacked RedHat.com or GNU.org, they would in fact say that an anti-OSS person was to blame.
The fact here is that this was created by someone in the OSS community with the intent to cause harm to an "enemy" (Microsoft and SCO). Ignoring this fact is like claiming that Al Qaida isn't comprised of Muslims.