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| Richard 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
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Am I the only one who thinks SCO is the key beneficiary of the DDOS
attacks on their systems? The attacks don't hurt SCO, and only make
SCO's critics out to be everything SCO says they are.
Almost makes me think SCO is behind the attacks...
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I fear the tyranny that technology makes possible.
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| Justin Robbs 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
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"Richard" <rh310@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Am I the only one who thinks SCO is the key beneficiary of the
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> attacks on their systems? The attacks don't hurt SCO, and only
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> SCO's critics out to be everything SCO says they are.
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> Almost makes me think SCO is behind the attacks...
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> --
> I fear the tyranny that technology makes possible.
I heard an interesting theory that SCO was behind the attacks on
the Debian server and the Gentoo server. The theory being that
they were trying to discredit Linux's security capabilities.
Although I would more attribute that to MS, if I had to pick a
corporate entity that were doing something like that.
justin
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| David Schwartz 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
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"Justin Robbs" <justin_robbsNO@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I heard an interesting theory that SCO was behind the attacks on
> the Debian server and the Gentoo server. The theory being that
> they were trying to discredit Linux's security capabilities.
> Although I would more attribute that to MS, if I had to pick a
> corporate entity that were doing something like that.
It's hard to imagine any large company doing anything like that. A rogue
employee or two, maybe.
DS
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| Floyd Davidson 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
| "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:quote:
>"Justin Robbs" <justin_robbsNO@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's hard to imagine any large company doing anything like that. A rogue
>employee or two, maybe.
I don't find it hard to imagine a company doing that. Rogue
employee, yes, and they are not excluded from management
positions. We've all seen managers who've done far worse.
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Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com
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| Jerry Feldman 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
| On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:57:38 -0900
Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
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> I don't find it hard to imagine a company doing that. Rogue
> employee, yes, and they are not excluded from management
> positions. We've all seen managers who've done far worse.
I agree. Essentially 20% of everyone is a jerk (and most of us fit that
category 20% or the time). Whether the SCO attacks come from some
current of ex SCO employee or from the Open Source community, it really
does not matter. I think that SCO's position is becoming weaker based on
the latest report of a potential split between SCO and Boies.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf-nospam-at-blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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| Floyd Davidson 2004-01-23, 5:31 pm |
| Jerry Feldman <gaf-noSPAM@blu.org> wrote:quote:
>Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
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>I agree. Essentially 20% of everyone is a jerk (and most of us fit that
>category 20% or the time). Whether the SCO attacks come from some
>current of ex SCO employee or from the Open Source community, it really
>does not matter. I think that SCO's position is becoming weaker based on
>the latest report of a potential split between SCO and Boies.
Agreed on most of the above, but what split? It turns there
was a lot of misinformation from McBride about Boies' contract.
McBride claimed, to get everyone's attention, that Boies
had taken the case on a contingency basis. That pretty much
sounded like Boies really was putting his own rear end on the
line.
But, turns out the only "contingency" is that he doesn't get
paid unless he turns in a time sheet. He's being paid an hourly
fee to do certain things, and minor court hearings are not one
of those things. He wasn't at the most recent hearing because
he wasn't getting paid to be there, simple as that. What
McBride was claiming to be a "contingency" is a bonus, and it
isn't limited to whatever SCO might win in court, but also
includes almost anything that causes SCO to show a larger
profit.
The real split, however, is between SCO and their bankers, who
are hedging investments now and requiring pre-approval of
any new legal actions that management wants to take.
Whatever, it is certainly going to be fun to see what SCO
produces in the way of actual examples of supposedly stolen
code.
<http://groklaw.net/> is fascinating.
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Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com
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