Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 24, 2003 10:35 PM
I don't often comment on articles, here or elsewhere, but certainly this one issue (SCO) has retained my direct attention and interest, for I see it as a fundimental assault on software freedom.
On the question of this "DoS" attack theory, all that I have seen is that people have observed that their (SCO's) sites have gone dark, but no particular cause has been demonstrated or publically known. I suppose anytime a site goes dark, a DoS attack is suspected, but I recall reading at least one careful analysis that strongly suggests that there is no attack at all in progress, and that perhaps they have chosen to take down their own sites for reasons, I guess, that will become appearent Monday.
Personally, I very much doubt that anyone in our community would choose to do something like that, and I think it is a very bad mistake to imply that this has happened or to imply people in our community would think to do this without very specific knowledge of such. Certainly one criminal act (SCO) does not make it right for others to act badly.
When I say criminal act in regard to SCO, I am firmly convinced that the nature of the actions by SCO's officers and directors are both illegal and do constitute a public fraud. On this my expectation is that the criminal justice system, in it's many forms, will eventually offer resolution to this problem. Certainly, anything that could be done to speed up that process I would find desirable.
I had in fact been looking "forward" to receiving one of their extortion letters, as I had already researched issues with filing a fraud complaint with my state AG. This and other kinds of actions that bring this issue to the criminal justice system faster are what I happen to think would be most useful for people to work on accomplishing.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 24, 2003 10:35 PMOn the question of this "DoS" attack theory, all that I have seen is that people have observed that their (SCO's) sites have gone dark, but no particular cause has been demonstrated or publically known. I suppose anytime a site goes dark, a DoS attack is suspected, but I recall reading at least one careful analysis that strongly suggests that there is no attack at all in progress, and that perhaps they have chosen to take down their own sites for reasons, I guess, that will become appearent Monday.
Personally, I very much doubt that anyone in our community would choose to do something like that, and I think it is a very bad mistake to imply that this has happened or to imply people in our community would think to do this without very specific knowledge of such. Certainly one criminal act (SCO) does not make it right for others to act badly.
When I say criminal act in regard to SCO, I am firmly convinced that the nature of the actions by SCO's officers and directors are both illegal and do constitute a public fraud. On this my expectation is that the criminal justice system, in it's many forms, will eventually offer resolution to this problem. Certainly, anything that could be done to speed up that process I would find desirable.
I had in fact been looking "forward" to receiving one of their extortion letters, as I had already researched issues with filing a fraud complaint with my state AG. This and other kinds of actions that bring this issue to the criminal justice system faster are what I happen to think would be most useful for people to work on accomplishing.
David Sugar
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