I have noted the points you made - as well as the vigorous debate on Slashdot.org about this article.
Well, Stephen Evan's weekly "stateside" column is not a news story, but an analytical look at major events and business trends in the United States.
It is, of course, debatable whether MyDoom/Novarg/Shimgapi was written just to bring down the SCO website, or whether the installation of spamming tools on numerous computers was an additional - or even the main - motive.
That was not the point of Stephen's article.
In his piece he wanted to draw the attention of BBC News Online's audience - many of whom are unlikely to know the ins and outs of the Open Source debate - to the rapid spread of Linux as a commercial application, SCO's attempts to cash in on this fact, and the deep anger that SCO has caused within the Linux community through its legal actions.
Stephen is not the first to draw the link between MyDoom and SCO's actions over Linux - plenty of others have done that before, including virus experts.
Regards,
Tim Weber Business Editor BBC News Interactive - www.bbc.co.uk/businessnews
Electronic Frontier Finland Co.warns and makes a note for all finlandians not to answer or reply to any Linux Licence procedures, statements or requests on the behalf of SCO.
If at any given time or any way someone has received or will receive a letter or e-mail from SCO, offering Linux-Licences or likewise, it is to be ignored and handled just like any other ordinary spam, advices the EFFI's chairman, Mikko Valimaki.
The minister of EFFI, Kai Puolamaki, points out and reminds that Linux is being shared and supervised by the GPL-licence, due to which the operating system can be developed and shared freely by independent factors.
He also states the SCO to have offered their own developed Linux-version known as Caldera supported by GPL-licence conditions, and thus letting the code open in the public, free for all. Valimaki also comments SCO still has not publiced any proof or evidence regarding the copying of the code, in spite of the numerous requests.
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Dear Sir
Thanks for your e-mail.
I have noted the points you made - as well as the vigorous debate on
Slashdot.org about this article.
Well, Stephen Evan's weekly "stateside" column is not a news story, but
an analytical look at major events and business trends in the United
States.
It is, of course, debatable whether MyDoom/Novarg/Shimgapi was written
just to bring down the SCO website, or whether the installation of
spamming tools on numerous computers was an additional - or even the
main - motive.
That was not the point of Stephen's article.
In his piece he wanted to draw the attention of BBC News Online's
audience - many of whom are unlikely to know the ins and outs of the
Open Source debate - to the rapid spread of Linux as a commercial
application, SCO's attempts to cash in on this fact, and the deep anger
that SCO has caused within the Linux community through its legal
actions.
Stephen is not the first to draw the link between MyDoom and SCO's
actions over Linux - plenty of others have done that before, including
virus experts.
Regards,
Tim Weber
Business Editor
BBC News Interactive - www.bbc.co.uk/businessnews
Electronic Frontier Finland Co. warns and makes a note for all finlandians not to answer or reply to any Linux Licence procedures, statements or requests on the behalf of SCO. If at any given time or any way someone has received or will receive a letter or e-mail from SCO, offering Linux-Licences or likewise, it is to be ignored and handled just like any other ordinary spam, advices the EFFI's chairman, Mikko Valimaki. The minister of EFFI, Kai Puolamaki, points out and reminds that Linux is being shared and supervised by the GPL-licence, due to which the operating system can be developed and shared freely by independent factors. He also states the SCO to have offered their own developed Linux-version known as Caldera supported by GPL-licence conditions, and thus letting the code open in the public, free for all. Valimaki also comments SCO still has not publiced any proof or evidence regarding the copying of the code, in spite of the numerous requests.
AssemblyTV: http://www.assemblytv.net/
Some pics: Mbnet.fi
Here's an even better article: Neworder
That site seems to be totally slashdottet, so I made a mirror: http://www.nwps.ws/mars_images/
Well, check out this: whitehouse.net
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Is google's search engine coded with Perl? What about database, is it oracle? If someone happens to know.