Posted on 10/13/2004 1:52:54 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
After a year and a half of being flamed, dissected and dismissed on the Groklaw.net Web site, The SCO Group (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc. (SCO) has decided to set up a Web site of its own to cover the latest happenings in its many legal disputes.
"We will be launching a Web site in a few weeks to tell our side of the story," said Darl McBride, SCO's president and chief executive officer (CEO), speaking at the Etre conference in Cannes Tuesday. "We think IP (intellectual property) is very important and to go back to the Wild West metaphor there was a movement in America called the Gold Rush and (open source proponents) are looking for your gold," he said.
"The new gold is IP," McBride said.
SCO plans to launch the Web site, called Prosco.net, on Nov. 1, said Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman.
"For some time now, if ever there was anyone who wanted to be provided with updates on how things are progressing with regard to the litigation on various fronts, there was never really a site they could go and hear SCO's side of the story," he said. "We'd like to provide a venue for that."
(Excerpt) Read more at infoworld.com ...
The site will include a calendar of the cases SCO currently has in litigation as well as access to the legal filings made in SCO's cases.
Um, we already have that at Groklaw for the IBM, Red Hat and Novell cases (no anti-SCO commentary there, just a simple list with document descriptions and links), and it already paints a very unflattering picture of SCO.
The only thing they could add, besides their numerous press releases (and the reporters who report them as fact) is if they would be nice and post those sealed documents. Or they could post the AutoZone and Daimler Chrysler timelines; although Groklaw has the docs, they're not in a timeline. OTOH, I bet DC won't be mentioned since they already lost that one. Or Red Hat, since they're a defendant in that case.
I've been missing SCO's antics recently, although they did recently get slammed by the judge over their stupid courtroom tactics.
SCO is still in business are they? I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is funding them to continue pursuing their case against IBM. I can't imagine any other reason for them still being afloat financially.
> "We will be launching a Web site in a few
> weeks to tell our side of the story,"
Well, I'm glad to see that SCO hasn't learned to shut up.
I can't imagine what they'll post to the site that isn't
already available on groklaw - who have this story at:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041013152617291
SCO is getting clobbered in court, and not just because
they have no case. Their continuing blabbing in the
press generates revealing and contradictory statements
that opposing counsel throws in their faces in court.
If the really new material on SCO's site is other than
content-free cheerleading from users not party to the
suits, it will just be another gold mine for IBM, DC,
AZ and RH in their cases.
Plus, SCO's cash flow can't really afford this needless
frill. Sounds like great entertainment all around.
Depends on the meaning of "in business."
They have a market cap of $61M, and cash of $61M. In other words, their business is worth $0.
their business is worth $0.
That's why they are trying to sue everyone they can. They have nothing to lose.
blessings, Bobo
Great. They can spout more potential evidence that IBM can use against them. It's all potential evidence.
SCO plans to launch the Web site, called Prosco.net
It was originally going to be called Proctoscope.net because SCO seems to have their heads up their arses a lot.
SCO.
What a bunch of stupid 'fscks'. :)
They could post the chain of custody for their "copyrights".
They could post the minutes of their meetings with their lawyers to see if they are misleading their lawyers or vice versa.
They could post the results of their three MIT code dumpster divers.
They could post their agreement of understanding with M$ and Sun.
It's a strange company.
Linux cussing-- Cute.
SCO already has a web site (and BTW, they've brought www.sco.com back too) with their press releases and selected legal docs on it. Darl has a blog too where he can spout off all he wants to.
Prosco.com won't allow commentary from outsiders, even from those who might defend SCO (assuming there are any left), and the docs are on Pacer/Groklaw/Tuxrocks anyway, so one has to wonder why they're taking the time and expense. Unless, of course, it's only to make some more PR noise because mostly everyone is ignoring SCO now.
Guess they don't expect to be in buisness longer then that.
Much of which would very much piss off the judge who has been ordering them to produce it in his courtroom for quite a long time. Or piss him off because SCO is asking for delays to counter IBM's motions for summary judgement, then to find instead of long ago producing the evidence that would kill the motions (and therefore stop wasting the judge's time), they post it online instead of having brought it to his courtroom.
Nope, none of it could be a good move.
As others have pointed out, any other useful thing they could do is already being done by others. If they do not perform any useful information production, the new web site will be dissected and exposed for the lame attempt to improve SCOx's image that it will likely be.
This is kind of like how the Kool-Aid drinkers needed to establish Democratic Underground because what passes for arguments among them couldn't survive outside their own special hot-house environment.
PROSCO spelled backwards is OSCORP, the outfit that provided the Green Goblin with his toys. Coincidence?
GE hasn't posted since 8/27. Hope he is still around.
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