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...Internet—one out of every 12 e-mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun SCO’s servers. But SCO just changed its domain name temporarily and avoided the Mydoom-mediated wrath of its pro-open-source assailants. Though Mydoom...
...problems required students to be familiar with Linux and Eclipse, which formed an open standards-based platform...
...Window Of Opportunity Hewlett-Packard will begin selling low-cost Linux-based PCs in Asia, making it the first major computer maker to launch large-scale marketing of PCs running the free, open-source operating system...
...Infects Harvard,” Feb. 4) You called open source software ‘uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code (hers) under a different license-for example, the MYSQL database is released...
Supporters in the Linux community have claimed responsibility for an earlier, smaller-scale attack on the SCO website, but authorities were still searching for the origin of the MyDoom virus...