[OT] Latest nmap cans SCO (Unixware)
Due to SCO's attack against Linux and IBM nmap have drop support for Unixware. Here is a quote directly from the changelog: o SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks. Go Fyodor go! ;-) Charles -- I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue. (Dave '-ddt->` Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 05:18, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Due to SCO's attack against Linux and IBM nmap have drop support for Unixware. Here is a quote directly from the changelog:
o SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks.
Go Fyodor go! ;-)
Charles
Awesome!!!!!! Well done Fyodor! There is nothing like a community coming together for a deserving cause. Tell you the truth...i'd really like to see the "Nessus Security Scanner" do the same. Maybe i 'll fire an email over to Renaud in reference to this....... - -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Network Administrator OpenGPG Key: 0x6A3DF6E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7i5QQT2komo99ukRArnnAKC8Ra5wltc1lXhJJWJbdDmiouoS6ACdFKFV me+DRrkUlU1lzrFC1qkHkfg= =YPov -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:53:32 -0500 Thomas Jones <thomas.jones@linux-howtos.com> wrote:
There is nothing like a community coming together for a deserving cause.
Agreed :-)
Tell you the truth...i'd really like to see the "Nessus Security Scanner" do the same.
SNORT too, let us leave them with no Open Source security tools. Hey, they can even market it as a new "feature" and call it Unixware XP. ;-) No matter what the outcome is, SCO as a company is toasted. They have destroyed all good will with their customers, the Free Software/Open Source community and the computer industry at large (I believe that their next target is HP). McBride will be looking forward to a new career as a used car salesman. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 16:45, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:53:32 -0500
Thomas Jones <thomas.jones@linux-howtos.com> wrote:
There is nothing like a community coming together for a deserving cause.
Agreed :-)
Tell you the truth...i'd really like to see the "Nessus Security Scanner" do the same.
SNORT too, let us leave them with no Open Source security tools. Hey, they can even market it as a new "feature" and call it Unixware XP. ;-)
No matter what the outcome is, SCO as a company is toasted. They have destroyed all good will with their customers, the Free Software/Open Source community and the computer industry at large (I believe that their next target is HP). McBride will be looking forward to a new career as a used car salesman.
Charles
The risk they run is a fine line between fud and criminal neglegence and liable. Criminal neglence in the form of malfeasance to their stock holders, and more over those that bought both Unix and Linux products and will be the enevitable victim that are left with a product that is unsupported and a license that may in the end be invalid. Liable in the sense that if it is found that they have no real evidence or that the evidence they are conviced is correct and subsequently ruled null and void then all the statements that can be proven to have hurt sales, clients, and business involved in/with Linux would be open to claims of damages. McBride and company would end up broke and no prospect of an executive position due to blaring evidence of their incompetence. Even if they do show/prove some code was not approprraite then where did it come from, If it came from SCO devs, the point is mute, if it was readily accessible and they took less than needed precautions to secure it, the point is mute. Eitherway, the more this goes on the less it seems that SCO has anything of substance. And their FUD may very likely turn and bite them in the arse. Just MHO. Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7oLKiqnGhdjCOJsRAnxqAJ9zGE9PMcrFkPF6U256o+Th4HzKSACeK7bw fxySgCig0J6mWVP5Bv8q3ak= =hMZT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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