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.'"

Comments

Re:this is not surprising

[hdparm]

Stephen Evans is a bastard. Journalist will NOT write such an unsubstantiated rant unless she/he is under someone's influence, be it money, politics, both of those or something else.

He must have been getting information from the same sources Tony B. got WMD info. Interesting detail is that he is BBC corespondent from North America. Is he, by any chance, stationed in Salt Lake City or perhaps Seatle?

Re:Complain

[doctor_oktagon]

BBC is notorious for highly biased coverage, which gave it the title 'Bagdad Broadcas Corporation'

I think you'll find the vast majority of the UK public applaud the BBC for reporting the human costs of war over the political chest-thumping.

Thank god we have the BBC and not something like CNN or Fox in this country.

To everyone who is shouting "it's wrong!" read the article again - he doesn't blame everyone in the Linux community and I'd say it's fair indeed to say that a virus which attacks the SCO website may well have been written by someone with a grudge against SCO, ie. 100% of Linux users.

This is the most blinkered thread I've ever read on Slashdot - you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Re:The page has changed.

[jag164]

So now I guess the BBC have joined the ranks of CNN, Fox etc..

Nope. They are much lower. Fox, CNN, MSNBC are just in it for the sensationalism. They may have clueless bastards in as 'experts' every now and then, but they don't just make shit up. The BBC has (not so) recently stooped to the tabloid medium. Make shit up and it sells. I know the BBC has little clout among my peer group. Do you folks from the UK take that[BBC] media conglomerate seriously?

With sentences like this:

[t_allardyce]

It's hard to see how any website could withstand that kind of clever evil.

Sounds like something that would come out the ass of a foaming mouthed Republican on crack.
I don't want to put the blaime on the BBC for this, that would be like the guy who wrote this article. Unfortunately the wrong people quit after the hutton enquiry - reading stuff about government lies on reports and saddams 45 minute sex estimate is fun, but this is just crap.

This attack, though, is not blackmail.
It is about malice not money.

This article isnt about blackmailing Linus, its more about money from SCO going into his pocket?

The BBC isn't out of the assisted suicide biz yet?

[Mongoose]

First they drive a poor old man to his death in the UK for doing his job. Second they try to kill the truth. Now they're only left with trying to kill of support for operating systems.

I think the BBC has only killed their credibility.