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SCO Site Down Today Again --
Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 09:49 AM EDT

SCO Site Down Today Again --
But They Say it Wasn't an Attack


Whatever happened over the weekend, today's outage definitely was not an attack, according to a SCO spokesman:

"The Web site of embattled software maker The SCO Group Inc. was inaccessible again on Tuesday, fueling reports of another denial of service attack. . . .

"The outage prompted Netcraft to declare that SCO was again the target of a DoS attack. However, the outage was actually due to preventative measures taken by SCO and its hosting service to mitigate the effects of future attacks, according to company spokesman Marc Modersitzki."


As usual, the press isn't quite correct. Here's what Netcraft actually has up on its news site now:

"The SCO site was up for a few hours during business hours in Utah, but has since failed again. Many news sites carried the story that Eric Raymond had spoken to a group responsible for a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the www.sco.com site and that they agreed to stop. However it appears that this may have been a hoax, or they subsequently changed their minds, or another person decided to continue the attack."

Or, the one guess they didn't think of, SCO did it themselves. It's good that at least Netcraft made it clear that they were only guessing.


  


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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 09:58 PM EDT
Up or Down... it's nothing but a propaganda distribution center. ;)
JustDave

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 10:18 PM EDT
There is the quite real possiblity that some random script kiddies are just
trying to stir things up... They see a conflict, and generally are
anti-big-business in attitude... so they attack the obvious target... that and
the fact there is no obvious linux target.
Me...

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 10:23 PM EDT
Here we go round the mulberry bush... SCO down again!

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/performance?explain=0&mode_p=on&m ode_u=off&mode_w=off&by=collector&errors=0&site=www.sco.com&site1=&sample=2&subm it=Examine&range=5d&maxy=0


Belzecue

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 10:25 PM EDT
D'Oh! sorry -- killed the window width. I hate that. Horizontal scrolling sucks. PJ, if you can edit, replace the gargantuan URL above with its tiny counterpart.

http://tinyurl.com/lbg4


Belzecue

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 10:39 PM EDT
Well, I see that didn't work out well. : )

If I try again, it'll be worse, in all likelihood. Sorry everyone. Radio is a challenge. Obviously I haven't got all the quirks figured out, and you'll please just endure until we make the move.


pj

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2003 @ 11:25 PM EDT
PJ -- could get yourself a Yahoo Group for the SCO Chronicles, maybe? The traffic here warrants some big iron for message management. And I notice quite a few SCO Yahoo Finance board members posting here. Would force all interested parties to get a yahoo logon, of course [bummer].

Anyway, look forward to whatever glitzy, glammy, no-longer-gluggy** Groklaw forums you are cooking up.

Cheers, Belz.

** This word does not exist according to my Collins English Dictionary. Dictionary.com defines 'glug' as...

glug v : make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle: "glasses clinked...and the wine bottles glugged"- Gerald Durrell.

This, however, does not capture the true spirit of 'gluggy' as used here in Australia. Typically, 'gluggy' indicates something goopy (here we go again), sluggish, prone to fouling up the orifice through which it is attempting to escape. Getting honey out of a squeeze bottle in winter is a fine example. Three consecutive Indian curries is a not-so-good example. My use of the word in regard to your comment forum is strictly limited to the window-width blowout issue and is NOT an opinion about the quality, quantity, or viscosity of the postings herein.

[Phew. Got out of that one rather well, no?]


Belzecue

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 27 2003 @ 05:00 AM EDT
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&newsid=397

http ://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1725366517&fp=16&fpid=0

regarding:

<quote>(Question)If SCO doesn’t offer a license that would permit the distribution of an in house customized Linux OS to internal data centers, what is the value of correcting the infringement on the part of my end users when my company as a whole is still infringing SCO’s intellectual property? What should I do? (Answer) Consider migrating from an in house customized version of Linux to a shrink wrap, off the shelf version of Linux or to an alternative operating system. If you are unable to migrate, consider outsourcing the development of the customized Linux distribution. </quote>

Repeat of previous thought: It seems to me SCO's cure for alleged infringement
is yet more alleged infringement
...either by some other non-SCO Linux distributor,
...or by getting some third party to do the infringement for you.

I am confused how that cures alleged infringement
- although it does put money in SCO's pocket
- IANAL, so I'd like to know is that a "good faith" effort?


quatermass - SCO delenda est

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 27 2003 @ 05:00 AM EDT
http://www.linux.org.uk/~taj/sco.ht ml
quatermass - SCO delenda est

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 27 2003 @ 06:24 AM EDT
IANAL, but doesn't SCO's failure to identify 'infringing' code violate their duty of mitigation of damages? So they can't claim damages for the use of 'infringing' code regardless. And trying to collect damages from IBM and license fees from end user is double dipping, is it not? Given this, it sure seems like extortion.
Larry

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radiocomment
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 27 2003 @ 07:01 AM EDT
sco.com down again this morning
Kastlemaster

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