---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AB881770280; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:05:44 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <6.00CC5BED@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:05:27 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 1173 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:05:20 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 8832; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:05:14 -0500 Received: from durango.natetech.com [216.17.150.117] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:05:14 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by durango.natetech.com Received: from midair.natetech.com ([216.17.141.162] helo=192.168.16.30) by durango.natetech.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AmlRb-0000fn-S5; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:05:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200401302008.18912.nate@natetech.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:08:18 -0700 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Nate Duehr Organization: NateTech Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux Comments: To: "Hulatt, Jon" To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856628 On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:39 am, Hulatt, Jon wrote: > Kind of dissapointing that this new virus seems to have been deliberately > released for a DOS attack at sco.com. It's only going to further enrage sco > in their "fight" against open-source. I wonder if the code for this virus > has been released under GPL :-D A conspiracy theorist might ask: Who says SCO themselves didn't write it themselves or ask someone else to? There's about a milion ways they could get the thing started propagating around the world while still covering their tracks that they did it. Sure would make them look like a good "victim"... and up up up goes the stock price even more... 'Cause they're SURE to win against those "Open Source Hoodlums!!!" ;-) Things that make you go ... Hmmmm. -- Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body .