SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD

ronaldb64 writes "According to a recent press release they are "...honored to be named among the many influential companies that comprise the SD Times 100. We pride ourselves in the work we do to create world renowned Unix-based solutions designed by some of the most experienced and outstanding engineers in the industry," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager, SCO's UNIX Division. What is the reason for the SD Times nomination? "The company's legal assaults on IBM and Linux users dominated 2003's tech headlines and shook up the open-source community. No other IT topic inspires such fervent debate, fear, uncertainty and doubt.". I guess any press is good press these days for SCO. Congratulations..."

Comments

Typical.

[Jaywalk]

Reminds me of SCO's spin on a VARBusiness article back in October. Here's SCO's version. Now check out the original article. SCO did indeed rate in the top four. Out of five.

Down they go

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO's stock price just makes me smile.

Re:What the fuck is FUD?

[Anonymous Coward]

It is jargon

Re:IBM tells it like it is ! (PDF here)

[RichMan]

Easy to read pdf version on TuxRocks IBM-148.pdf

Re:Dubious Honor

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, up to the point when Germany went to war, Hitler was quite successful as a leader - he is credited with bringing Germany out of the Great Depression and the rampant inflation that had gone along with it (find someone from Germany and ask them if they have (or have relatives who have) a 1,000,000 DM bill from that time period - they are fairly common).

That is why Time named him Man of the Year in 1938. His other antics didn't come to light until a little later. Bad timing on Time's part, perhaps.

Re:Mozilla Firefox

[Bob of Dole]

Yeah, they are using an odd HTML trick to try and create a vertical horizontal-rule (See the problem with this?)
Firefox seems to (quite rightly!) think they are insane.

(It's a <HR> tag with size set to 240 and width set to 2, inside some tables with (col|row)spans. I'm suprised that trick works anywhere)

Just out of curiosity

[WindBourne]

Who remains inside of SCO/USL that was any good on the tech side of things? When USL was first created, a number of them elected to remain with Bell/Lucant/Avaya, but USL still had some good techies. Even over the last decade, USL would hire some that were pretty decent. But does any good techies remain? I find it hard to believe that even with this economy.

Obligatory Karma-Building Groklaw Reference

[MuParadigm]

Groklaw has a story on the SD Times FUD Award, as well as some comments from Red Hat's new counsel regarding FUD activities as responses to the disruptive technologies of Open Source, and that Red Hat will defend against it in the future.

Also, IBM has just filed a memorandum opposing SCO's motion to extend the court schedule. It sounds boring, I know, but what it basically says is that there is no reason to extend the court date, because any delays in the schedule have been caused by SCO's own malfeasance, and IBM intends to ask for summary judgement on everything anyway.

Here are some of the choicer quotes:

"As stated, the most egregious example of SCO's discovery misconduct is SCO's persistent refusal to identify with specificity the UNIX System V source code that forms the basis of its claims against IBM."

"IBM believes that discovery in this case should be conducted according to the schedule to which the parties agreed almost a year ago. In fact, as we will lay out in forthcoming submissions most (if not all) of the claims in the suit can be resolved on summary judgment without more discovery. SCO should not be allowed, through its own misconduct, to prolong this case merely to serve its own interests in cultivating the fear, uncertainty and doubt SCO has created regarding Linux and IBM's products."

"In the instant case, SCO has not shown "good cause" for extending fact discovery in the case for an additional nine months and putting off trial until September 2005. ... [E]ach of SCO's stated reasons for requestinfg the extension are attributable entirely to SCO's own stalling tactics during the course of discovery and reflect an utter lack of diligence."

A tiff of the full document can be found at Pacer's public SCO v. IBM page.

The PDF can be found at Frank Sorenson's sco.tuxrocks.com site.

For posterity...

[dan of the north]

Investor Relations

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SCO Named to the SD Times 100

LINDON, Utah, May 17, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- The SCO(R) Group (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today announced the company has been named to the 2004 SD Times 100. SCO was recognized for its influence in software development as owners of the UNIX Operating System.

"SCO is honored to be named among the many influential companies that comprise the SD Times 100. We pride ourselves in the work we do to create world renowned Unix-based solutions designed by some of the most experienced and outstanding engineers in the industry," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager, SCO's UNIX Division.

This year's SD Times 100, published in the magazine's May 15, 2004 issue, includes a new category called "influencers" in which SCO was honored, alongside some of the top companies in the high tech industry today. Other categories include; Modeling, Components & Libraries, Test & Debug, Tools & Environments, Collaboration, Deployment Platforms, Embedded & Mobile, Database & Data Access, Integration & Middleware, Standards Bodies & Consortia.

For more than two decades, SCO has provided innovative UNIX solutions valued by customers for its reliability, stability and security. As a leading influencer in the high tech sector, SCO software has been installed on millions of servers worldwide and has licensed UNIX technology in major corporations throughout the world.

"Each year, the editors of BZ Media's SD Times 100 look for companies and influencers which set the technical and market leadership for the software development industry," said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "When choosing the 2004 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization's offerings and reputation with developers, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry."

About SCO

The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.

SCO, and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

SOURCE The SCO Group

http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=13 53 27

World Renowned

[einhverfr]

Just because it has a reputation doesn't mean it has a GOOD reputation. Of course the same goes for the FUD award.

I actually have, in my basement, an old version of SCO Xenix (5.0 I think?) built for the 80486.

Now I prefer Linux to Solaris, and I prefer Solaris to Windows some of the time. But SCO Xenix was THE WORST operating systm in its class as far as I am concerned. Many of the design decisions makes MS look *really, really good* at software design. And evidently reading the reviews of the more recent versions, it still seems to be that way...

OTOH, their documentation was really great (the only reason I keep it around). The only documentation I have ever seen that came close was the FreeBSD guide which came with my FreeBSD CD's. And the SCO material covered twice the material in half the pages while assuming that the user knew absolutely nothing.

SD Times and Godwin's Law

[Doug Merritt]

SD Times is implicitly triggering Godwin's Law, because this clearly parallels Time Magazine's 1938 naming of Adolf Hitler as Man of the Year. http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/archive/1938.html

Oldest trick in the book: stir up controversy by being jerks just to get free publicity.