SCO website sabotaged again
SCO website sabotaged again
The SCO Group's website has been disabled by a denial of service attack, the third such strike on the website this year.
It is not known where this latest attack originated, but the likelihood is that the perpetrators are part of the Linux community, which is embroiled in a legal row with SCO, with SCO claiming that chunks of its proprietary Unix code has been used by IBM in the development of Linux and that Linux users should therefore pay SCO licensing fees.
The first attack in may saw the SCO's website downed for several hours, while the second attack in August was altogether more severe, with the website out of commission for several days.
The August attack prompted the president of the open source advocacy group, Eric Raymond to issue a message to the open source community to stop the DoS attack, warning that it would do more harm than good to their cause.
"We're the good guys. But that doesn't matter if we aren't "seen" to be the good guys. We cannot fight our war using vandalism and trespass and the suppression of speech, or SCO will paint us as crackers and maybe win," said Raymond in a posting on Linux.com. It seems, however, that his advice has not been heeded, with SCO.com once again hit by a serious attack, the effects of which are likely to be felt for the next few days.
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