No, it's being Slashdot'ed. The link was posted as an update to the original story about the SCO code, on the front page. There are probably something on the order of 250,000 people trying to read the article.
In my opinion, the second article is a bit better, anyway.
It's slashdotted. (if that means nothing to you: when the open source news site slashdot.org cites something of interest to its readers, the server frequently gets buried. Lwn.net is there, it's just overrun with readers and reeeeeal slow).
For people who want the technical side of this, here is the /. thread... most of you who'd benefit have probably already been there.
d.o.l.
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