[ILUG] Morning Ireland piece on MyDoom virus

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

kevin lyda wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:30:48AM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
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>>(as an interview) by William Campbell of BUA Training.
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>>http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland.html
>>http://www.buatraining.com/Personnel.htm
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>>Not only did it show William Campbell to be horrifically ill-informed, but
>>what he did say was downright slanderous of OSS, Linux and OpenOffice.org.
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>a transcript of what was said would be useful.
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>i'd suggest that if people do email morning ireland that they be
>respectful and polite.  but a transcript would be better first so that
>any reply would be fully informed.
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>kevin
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I'm working on getting both a transcript organised, and an "official" 
ILUG response issued. Can people willing to post transcripts etc please 
do so. We also welcome comments / suggestions on rebuttal statements 
which can be used to put the record straight.

This is the second time in a week RTE (an OSS user IIRC) have given 
airtime to "independant" consultants who were spouting this FUD 
(Previous occasion was on 5-7 Live on Wednesday last)

Some places to start:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/29/sco_legal_case_poses_a_conundrum_on_how_it_should_defend_a_ddos.html
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.groklaw.net/
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/42125.htm
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040129003223254
http://www.messagelabs.com/news/virusnews/detail/default.asp?contentItemId=733&region=america

And certainly one of the best :
http://perens.com/Articles/SCO/DOS/

(apologies for link-wrappage if / where it occurs)

Proinnsias
<wearing his chairman hat>
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Chairman - Irish Linux Users Group