Make copies of that wayback machine page!!

Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:32 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66)
Parent article: Why SCO won't show the code

Not that it's a real worry, but:

Wayback machine does let site owners remove things from the archive. I know, because I've done this. (www.dramex.org has plays people have put online, and sometimes they ask us to remove them. Once I discovered wayback machine, I told them to remove the old plays and stop archiving the new ones.)

SCO may figure out that they have left tracks behind and try to erase them. Print-outs or copies of those tracks should be made before they do this. (I'm to lazy to do this myself, but *somebody* probably ought to.)

Of course, I wouldn't worry, because this is the same company that has distributed Linux on it's own ftp site while claiming that those who distribute Linux under the GPL are violating its intellectual property. This is a company whose left hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing. But, still.

-Rob

Make copies of that wayback machine page!!

Posted Aug 19, 2003 22:50 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Oh,no!

But wich ones ?

I dont belive that they will throw more fiascos as this, plently commented in this site.

Now that the super fast response of the Linux/OSS community seamed to have made a hole in the SCO FUD warchest, and mark a clear victory... you are telling that they could be back in business ?

Guess that there must be copies of "everything" UNIX related,... maybe OSI could hire a guy to google and copy everything Unix related,... how much days could it take ?

Make copies of that wayback machine page!!

Posted Aug 19, 2003 23:58 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

Call me a paranoid, but it has saved my life at least once.

I won't say there's no worry here. Please someone archive this stuff on your personal machine. And don't tell anyone it's there. Just keep it until it's needed, or this mess is over.

I'd just say I've done that myself, as I've done in past cases (I have an untouched copy of 2.4 source from Caldera for instance,) but it's almost 2am in my timezone and I've done enough for the day. I know there are thousands of geeks who haven't, and I know a lot of us have a little hard drive space to spare. Grab this stuff. If only one of us has it, it means nothing, but if a couple hundred have byte-identical copies with the same time and date and the same story on how it was obtained, we have a legal chain of evidence that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. So please, just in case, do it now. Burn it to a CD or something, along with a description of exactly when and how you obtained it. You'll almost certainly be wasting a CD, but they're cheap, and if it does become an issue, you'll be glad you did.

I'm going to bed now, I leave it up to you.

Make copies of that wayback machine page!!

Posted Feb 11, 2006 23:26 UTC (Sat) by kbolino (guest, #35879) [Link]

It was a real worry. SCO has used robots.txt, which the company that operates the Wayback Machine recognizes and applies retroactively, to block access to all of its pages. I hope that someone did get these saved, because SCO apparently doesn't want their own history to be known.