From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message news:44250a64$1{at}w3....
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/
>
> "The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened
> to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker Cent
> OS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's
> hosting provider had simply botched a web server.
>
> This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle's city manager Jerry Taylor
> fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto
> the city's web site and found the standard Apache server configuration
> boilerplate that appears with a new web server installation. Taylor
> seemed to confuse this with a potential hack attack on the bustling
> town's IT infrastructure.
>
> "Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone
> else from accessing it???," Taylor wrote to CentOS. "Please
remove your
> software immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am
> the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.""
>
>
> & my ma is also ma aunt.....
>
> Adam

This guy gets PAID ?

"I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems
engineering and operation. Now, can you tell me how to remove 'your
software' that you acknowledge you provided free of charge? I consider this
'hacking.'"

CentOS has the entire exchange

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127

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