mi2g: Growth of Radicalism Within Open Source–SCO Under Attack Again

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 24, 2004

“The main SCO Group web site (sco.com) has been intermittently
accessible on Tuesday and Wednesday, having been down on Monday,
displaying characteristic patterns seen during a protracted
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Several related
domains have also been off- and on-line over the last 72
hours…

“Reliable sources in the Open Source community have confirmed to
the mi2g Intelligence Unit that the SCO DDoS attack is linked to
the increasingly radical but small set of members of the Open
Source community…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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