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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.
...albeit a mansion. The mapquest map shows this address about as high as you can go in the salt lake valley.
Not sure how current the other listings for S2 are, but wayback machine shows their old website, which contains some interesting demographic data (particularly, an office in Redmond, WA).
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
The MS conspiracy theory is the only thing that makes sense when gaging SCO's actions. Who on earth
would sink the ship without having a lifeboat. I whole heartedly believe as do most others that MS is the sole driving factor behind all of this. I have never seen a company as hell bent destined to sink as SCO. What other possible motive do they have??
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Now that SCO has dropped the trade secret argument, Perens dismantles their remaining arguments in his column. Hopefully IBM and RedHat are reading it.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I said at the time that it was a really bad idea for the Netscape guys and Scott McNealy to start this particular type of pissing contest. In the first place the DoJ would have given Microsoftr a much tougher time if they had stuck to the original case rather than getting into the Web and Java stuff where the case was very weak.
But more importantly the motives of Sun and Netscape looked to be mostly about how to set up an alibi for their own monumental incompetence. Oh dear, company folded, must have been those evil guys in Redmond not my own incompetence...
Oh well at least this time that fool Jackson won't be involved.
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MS hired a PR firm to create "I switched from Mac to XP" advertisement but the PR firm ended up using a stock phone that was discovered rather quickly.
I guess is that MS hired a middleman to funnel the money through to SCO and that middleman (S2) did half-assed job funneling the money.
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I have to suspect they're out of business since their Web site shows a plain image with no content while archive.org shows they had previous content. And www.siliconstemcell.com, showing the same whois information as s2.com and s2.net, redirects to the FBI site. Also, looking up S2 at https://secure.utah.gov/bes/bes shows them as delinquent.
Funny you should mention that? ;)
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Wonder if it would be possible to picket Darl's house? Betcha his neighbors wouldn't be too happy, though, and it would be kinda bad for them. I mean, they haven't done anything wrong here (at least not that we know of).
However, should you wish to contact Darl politely, here is how to do so:
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The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
801-765-4999 phone
801-765-1313 fax
Contact SCO online
http://www.thescogroup.com/company/feedba
Darl C McBride
1799 Vintage Oak Ln
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-6539
Darl's home phone #: (801)424-2006
Darl's office phone #: 801-932-5820
Email Darl: darl@sco.com
I'm still not convinced that this isn't just the most ellaborate pump and dump scheme yet devised.
The insiders have been seller shares since SCO first filed the suit. Their only purchases have been through the exercise of options. Not one of them has any confidence n the future of their company. Read it here. Even if this is exactly what McBride claims it is, a legitimate lawsuit, the folks who have the most knowledge about SCO's prospects for winning it are taking their money and running.
Bruce Perens is right when he says, "When a company makes unfounded assertions for a month or two, it can be dismissed as a mistake or wishful thinking. When the distortions continue for a full year, that suggests a less innocent conclusion. There are hard questions about what's going on--especially when deceived stockholders are liable to left in the lurch.".
But did you use "123-456-7890" as your phone number when you registered your domain?
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Individually, all of these elements are innocent. Put together, while they might still turn out to be innocent, they certainly appear suspicious. Anderer, MS, and SCO could certainly dispel these suspicions if there was nothing to them and they wanted to. My guess is that they've got to get their stories straight, first.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
If your address is correct, then have a look at this