Here is my letter to the BBC:
After reading your article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty", I was shocked and disapointed that a well respected news agency like you self would headline pure speculations, half truths and propagenda with out any type of proof or leads of any kind.
The only factual truth in the article is the SCO claims and current legal battle. This type of attac is not new it has existed for years and multiple worms have the the same thing in the pass, remember the attacs agains yahoo, ebay. agains microsofts windows update site... It must of been Windows users that were tired of all thoses udates that created the virus to destroy Microsoft.
In the more resent month their were multiple attacs agains spam black list sites. The exact same type of attac. These were all DoS attacs caused by some sort of virus.
The worst of the article is generalisation and type casting of all Linux user as geek demagogues that will destroy you if you go agains their will. Even, if the author of the virus was a Linux user, this does not make the entire community responsible. The grand majority of the Open Source community has always found any kind of virus a unacceptable and an the others should be found an procecuted.
According to your logic your september 11th headline should have been: "Passengers bomb New-York". And then talk about how they were tired of the high prices and the long delays.
A disapointer reader.
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Here is my letter to the BBC: After reading your article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty", I was shocked and disapointed that a well respected news agency like you self would headline pure speculations, half truths and propagenda with out any type of proof or leads of any kind. The only factual truth in the article is the SCO claims and current legal battle. This type of attac is not new it has existed for years and multiple worms have the the same thing in the pass, remember the attacs agains yahoo, ebay. agains microsofts windows update site... It must of been Windows users that were tired of all thoses udates that created the virus to destroy Microsoft. In the more resent month their were multiple attacs agains spam black list sites. The exact same type of attac. These were all DoS attacs caused by some sort of virus. The worst of the article is generalisation and type casting of all Linux user as geek demagogues that will destroy you if you go agains their will. Even, if the author of the virus was a Linux user, this does not make the entire community responsible. The grand majority of the Open Source community has always found any kind of virus a unacceptable and an the others should be found an procecuted. According to your logic your september 11th headline should have been: "Passengers bomb New-York". And then talk about how they were tired of the high prices and the long delays. A disapointer reader.