SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth

cdlu writes "Wondering about SCO's contractor S2? They're the people that wrote Halloween II and indemnified SCO... well, here's all you want to know about them from NewsForge." (NewsForge is part of OSDN.) Maybe not all you want to know, but enough for one day. Several readers also point out Bruce Perens' column on CNET today which reiterates the difficulty SCO faces in attempting to get past the clarification of license terms AT&T offered Unix licensees in 1985.

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Covered by Eric Raymond ++ on Thelinuxshow tonight

[bstadil]

Head on over to TheLinuxshow tonight. Starting at 8 Central this issue will be covered in details plus a section on how to complain to the SEC about MS' involvement.

If you take the trouble on filing a formal complain to the SEC you could actualy make a difference.

Second the MS antitrust judge Kollar Kotelly needs to be informed as well. What MS is doing is directly against her ruling.

Re:This case is over...

[nastyphil]

If you read Groklaw and I am sure many of you do SCO doesn't have a case.

What you mean is: if Groklaw's interperatation of the facts and the law in this case is accurate and mirrored by the presiding courts, THEN SCO doesn't have a case.

Re:Covered by Eric Raymond ++ on Thelinuxshow toni

[fishbonez]

Second the MS antitrust judge Kollar Kotelly needs to be informed as well. What MS is doing is directly against her ruling.

The Technical Committee is responsible for enforcing the Final Judgement from the MS anti-trust case. You can submit complaints about MS possibly violating the Final Judgement to them. However when I emailed them, they sent me back the following reply:

The Technical Committee has received your email dated March 9th, 2004, regarding SCO Group and Microsoft Corp. The issues you raise in your communication are not within the scope of the Technical Committee's mandate to assist the United States and the Settling States in the enforcement of the consent decree with Microsoft.

For more information regarding the Governments' antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft or the settlement in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the following websites may be helpful:

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/microsoft-2001.html - District Court site
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm - Department of Justice site
http://www.microsoft-antitrust.gov - Joint States site
http://www.microsoft.com/legal/settlementprogram - Microsoft

Thank you for your interest in the Microsoft antitrust litigation and the Technical Committee. Any future correspondence may be addressed to complaints@thetc.org.

I do not agree with their assessment as they are charged with enforcing the Final Judgement, which states the following:

Section III. Prohibited Conduct
F. Microsoft shall not retaliate against any ISV [Independent Software Vendor] or IHV [Independent Hardware Vendor] because of that ISV's or IHV's:
1. developing, using, distributing, promoting or supporting any software that competes with Microsoft Platform Software or any software that runs on any software that competes with Microsoft Platform Software, or
2. exercising any of the options or alternatives provided for under this Final Judgment.

I think that MS's alleged behavior in the SCO matter clearly falls under that section and warrants an investigation. But the Technical Committee is saying that this is not their job. However, I saw no qualifiers on their website limiting their enforcement to particular sections of the Final Judgement. Perhaps when a clearer picture of MS's actions emerges, they will be more inclined to investigate but I suspect it will fall to the Justice Department to investigate.

Re:Phone "Out of order" for several days

[Anonymous Coward]

AT&T newsletters are on Groklaw here and here

Re:Phone "Out of order" for several days

[jareds]

The April 1985 $ echo newsletter announces that changes will be made to the agreements, and is available here (see page 5).
The August 1985 $ echo newsletter announces that changes have been made to the agreements, and is available here (again, see page 5).

Unemployment

[MrYotsuya]

Just one example. When the same news sources reported that 5.6% unemployment under Clinton Good, but currently report that 5.6% unemployment under Bush is Bad, they're liars.

The difference is that under Clinton, the number of jobs actually increased. Under Bush II, there's a net loss of about 2.3 million jobs.

Re:BOFH explains SCO lawsuit

[corbettw]

Broken link fixed

wayback s2.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010425142653/http:/ /s 2.com/index.html

From wayback you can see there site has changed many times. It used to be owned by someone else and in the mid 90s was a sports site. A few years back we find things like:

S2 is a second-generation entrepreneurial venture firm that specializes in developing and accelerating companies that commercialize emerging technologies across a wide spectrum of industries.

S2 is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, with additional offices in Redmond, WA, Detroit, MI and Columbia, SC. S2 Capital, the company's affiliated financial firm, is located in Charleston, SC.

They really did have a lot of offices as you can see:

S2 - Headquarters

56 East Broadway
Salt lake City, UT
84111
v.801.415.2100
f.801.415.2101

info@s2.com

S2 - Central States

123 South Main
Royal Oak, MI
48067
v.248.837.1400
f.248.837.1401

S2 - Southeast

1200 Main St. ste. 1000
Columbia, SC
29201
v.803.772.5922
f.803.733.6799

S2 - Northwest

8195 166th Ave. NE ste. 101
Redmond, WA
98052
v.425.882.2893
f.425.881.5773

S2 Capital

418 king St.
Charleston, SC
29403
v.843.722.8670
f.843.937.8518

Basic Background on Silicon Stemcell

[Snerdley]

Try a simple Google for "silicon stemcell" and if you "feel lucky", you'll find an article from 1999:

Firm seeks to protect ideas

Basically it says what you'd expect:

"Our goal is to protect, extend and acquire intellectual property," said Anderer, who's Silicon Stemcell's president and chief executive officer.

Perhaps more forboding is this quote (again from 1999, this time about a broadband firm):

"We are very optimistic about our ability to go out and license these technologies in several different ways."