SomeBloke <stuff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 07:30:36 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> Burying the truth? Boycott Novell hit by Denial of Service attack
>>>
>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/
> burying_the_truth_boycott_novell_hit_by_denial_of_service_attack
>>
>> Boycott Novell is one opinionated site. If you think I'm pro-Linux
>> and hard on Microsoft, you haven't been reading Roy Schestowitz, who
>> makes me look as mild as a May day.
>>
>> :-D
>>
>> Boycott Novell, which was founded in 2006 in reaction to Novell's
>> partnership with Microsoft, is very popular with about a million hits
>> per month, but it's also made enemies. Enemies who seem to have had
>> enough of Boycott Novell recently launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial
>> of Service) attack, which has almost knocked the site out.
>>
>>> I've struggled with it for 3+ days. I'm still restoring data. I needed
>>> to set up the account again.
>>
>> And they think /we/ are the zealots!
I would not think of you as in any "we". You so wish and so suck up to
make it so, but no, there is no "we". You are a windows programming
professional.
>>
>> In Boycott Novell's case, I strongly suspect that that someone iis a
>> person with a screw loose and a grudge against Schestowitz's strong
>> anti-Microsoft and proprietary software views. If that seems a little
>> bit over-the-top, well, as I just pointed out, it doesn't really
>> require any technical expertise to knock out a Web site. All you need
>> is a grudge and the right contacts.
>
> There are at least 5 non-de-plumes trolls I could suggest as potential
> screw loose cases who would seriously consider doing such a thing. The
> rest of the trolls are too thick!
So says "SomeBloke" ....
BoycottNovell is ignored generally because it's a crank web site.
The recent spanking the usual suspects got on the subject of Mono was
priceless.
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