As it became known today, THE FBI produced the detention of several colleagues (programmers and managers) of company SCO, and also were carried out search in the head office and withdrawal of one of the servers and several working stations. The details of the operation of special services separately are not revealed; however, known (from the words of the representative of company IBM according to the connections with the community) that operation is connected directly with the judicial lawsuit between companies IBM and SCO.
According to the existing information, all detentions are connected with the investigation, which is led BY THE FBI in connection with the epidemic of new Internet- worm. Supposedly, for special services it was possible to analyze geography and velocity of propagation of worm, and so to reveal very source of infection - however it is paradoxical, company herself SCO. Possibly, by this unexpected motion someone of the colleagues of company planned (on the personal initiative or on the indication of management) to dispose public opinion against Linux- association, with which it wages irreconcilable juridical war SCO, attempting to tear away for the licenses in the sections of code Linux/Unix "bank" into tens of billions of dollars.
# Re: Mydoom écrit par SCO ?
Posté par Marc Picha . En réponse au journal Mydoom écrit par SCO ?. Évalué à 4.
Epidemic Mydoom - the guilty is found?
As it became known today, THE FBI produced the detention of several colleagues (programmers and managers) of company SCO, and also were carried out search in the head office and withdrawal of one of the servers and several working stations. The details of the operation of special services separately are not revealed; however, known (from the words of the representative of company IBM according to the connections with the community) that operation is connected directly with the judicial lawsuit between companies IBM and SCO.
According to the existing information, all detentions are connected with the investigation, which is led BY THE FBI in connection with the epidemic of new Internet- worm. Supposedly, for special services it was possible to analyze geography and velocity of propagation of worm, and so to reveal very source of infection - however it is paradoxical, company herself SCO. Possibly, by this unexpected motion someone of the colleagues of company planned (on the personal initiative or on the indication of management) to dispose public opinion against Linux- association, with which it wages irreconcilable juridical war SCO, attempting to tear away for the licenses in the sections of code Linux/Unix "bank" into tens of billions of dollars.