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SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage
linuxwrangler writes "Tired of being 'flamed, dissected and dismissed' on Groklaw, SCO has decided to fight back. SCO's site, scheduled for launch on November 1, will be called prosco.net. Just yesterday SCO CEO and favorite /. whipping-boy Darl McBride gave a speech comparing the software industry to the 'wild west' and warning companies that they must protect their intellectual property or risk being 'sacked by open source-touting bandits.'"
And in tonight's news, Fox News is sueing SCO over the use of the word Fair! SCO allegedly plans to countersue saying they've got prior art on using litigation to stifle competition!
More at 11!
"The new gold is IP," McBride said. ...SCO soon to become ghost town, after unsuccessfully mining the Linux kernel and not finding one itty bitty nugget.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I thought it was supposed to be more like the High Seas... ya know with the pirates and all that!
How do these things keep changing on me??
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
Nope - according to Darl himself (as quoted in TFA), if they had a forum on that site it would just be overrun by pro-open-source zealots with nothing better to do than to lambaste SCO.
Less is more.
prosco.net
The SCO group
etc. etc.
My amazing wife - Artist, Author, Philosopher - Laurie M
I read this as procto.net. I figgured maybe they were just pulling propaganda out of their butts.
I, for one, welcome our new by Open Source-touting bandit overlords!
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
prosco isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternatives:
o .comm .com
ilovesco.com
ohyesyesgimmesco.com
chicksdigsc
mcbrideforprez.com
gaysforsco.com
scorgas
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
is positioning for the role of "Robber Baron".
Somebody should tell him that Bill Gates has that job sewed up.
myke
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At first I thought prosco.com was for pros. co., as in "A Prosecuting Company". That about sums it up.
Punctanym: alternate spelling of words using punctuation or numerals in place of some or all of its letters; see 'leet'
-Derek
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
that they'll have a public forum open long enough to get their comments debunked on their own site! :-D
:-)
I think I saw the Beta site. A lot of members, let me list some:
McBride
Dary1234
DarylM
MrMcB
These people were really pro sco. I hope he er... they don't start ScoDotting our servers
It was like one guy, but he could hit refresh REALLY fast
The new web site will be known as... SCOfflaw.net
I think he meant it's the new FOOL'S gold."
-r
Just because something is free does not mean you have to take it.
Which is rather fitting. I imagine that Darl's putting on the rubber gloves right now for visitors to the site. Prosco - the only site on the web that offers a free rectal exam before they completely screw you over.
Slashdot - the place where you can look like a genius by restating the obvious
I guess they figured that it'd be a waste of money springing for a two-year registration. It's not like there'll be anybody there left to renew the domain next October after they've been left as a smouldering caldera...
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
Created on: 04-OCT-04
Expires on: 04-OCT-05
Last Updated on: 04-OCT-04
Obviously, SCO feels that they aren't going to be around after this date... or one would think they would at least have bothered to splash out the extra cash for a 2-year reg rather than just a 1-year reg.
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
There is a pattern here:
There's a company called PROSCO, for "Promotional and Supply Services Co.", in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.prosco.com.sa/
Prosco Internacional S.A. de C.V. is out of Mexico City. I'm not sure what they do, though their home page has a link titled "Candy Recycling". Hmm.
http://www.proscoint.com/
Sweetshops, something that sounds like was raised for convincing the US to attack Iraq.
And a company with a policy of:
1: Steal candy from children
2: Recycle?
3: Profit!
I am telling you: They are all evil!
BWAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!
*deeep breath*
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
You know, it would be pretty funny if someone hacked their DNS records. If the perpetrator took note of the original prosco.net IP address, they could "modify" the site slightly. i.e. The "news" would look the same and be kept up to date, but every story would have a "Add your comments here!" link at the bottom. 404s would simply pass back to SCO's site. Might take SCO a while before they figure out the problem. ;-)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Ohh Nooo! What IF all (3 of them) try to swarm /.'s servers at THE SAME TIME....the PRESSURE!! the AGONY!! the FEAR!! the...
503 Error
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
SCO is a company with good intentions. Remember, fellas: they developed the original Unix from scratch with punch cards and tweezers and jumpers and things.
Now they're being picked on by all these dangerous firms on the edge of legality like "International Business Machines" (clearly a front for the communist and/or nazi party) and an irregular army of anarchist hacker geniuses.
I mean, seriously, if SCO doesn't turn this thing around, what WILL happen to Unix?
Or at least I think it would be fun to have a field day with this:
:)
Darl: I've learned something, too: selling out is sweet because when you sell out, you get to make a lot of money, and when you have money, you don't have to hang out with a bunch of poor asses like you guys. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
---
Linus: Wow! That's a lot of seamen, Darl.
Darl: Yeah, I bought all that I could at this bank, and then I got the rest from this guy Ralph in an alley.
RMS: That's cool.
Darl: Yeah, and the sweet thing is, the stupid asshole didn't even charge me money for it. He just made me close my eyes and suck on a hose.
---
Darl: Why is it that everything today has to do with things either going in or coming out of my ass?
---
Darl: Now stop wasting Bill Gates' time, you little pussy prick.
Linus: Don't take that tone with me, kid. I'll kick your ass.
Darl: Yah. Well, I'd like to see you try. I'm, like, 6 feet tall.
RMS: Yah. Well, you sound like a little bitch to me.
Darl: Bitch! Don't call me bitch, bitch!
RMS: Bring it on then, bitch!
Darl I already brung it, bitch. I brung it, opened it, and set it on the table, bitch.
----
IBM Executive: How would you like to go meet with our litigation counselor?
Darl: How would you like to suck my balls?
IBM Executive: What did you just say?!
Darl: Oh, I'm sorry (Clears throat and pulls out megaphone), actually what I said was, "How would you like to suck my balls?"
----
Linus: The note (from Carly Fiorina) says to meet her at Stark's Pond after meeting.
Linus: Whoa, maybe you can kiss her.
Darl: Or slip a little tongue.
RMS: [mumbles] Or slide a finger up her pussy.
Linus: I didn't know she had a cat.
---
Darl: That judge rulling has warped my fragile little mind.
---
Darl: I hate linux hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
Darl: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
---
Darl: Don't worry, Tweek. Your family can go on welfare. RMS's family's on welafare and they're happy, isn't that right, RMS?
RMS: Fuck you.
---
Darl: Linus, I am out of control. Yeah, I use drugs. I can do what I waunt, biatch! Yeah, I have sex, and I don't use protection! It's my hot body; I'll do what I waunt! I don't go to school and I kill people! What-evah! I'll do what I waunt!
---
RMS: Does anybody know anything about corporations?
Darl: I think my mom is a corporation.
Linus (sarcastically): Yeah, that makes sense.
aah, it's just an excuse
You can't handle the truth.
Hey lets ask Al Gore, after all he is the one who invented it!
Can you imagine the (well-deserved) trolling this will generate if they have a comment forum? Any chance of reasoned pro vs anti discussion will be drowned hot grits.
If any real arguments on either side manges to get through, I'm going to guess the pro/anti sco ratio will be like 1 pro to 100 anti.
1. A method to be flamed.
2. A method to be dissected.
3. A method to be dismissed.
Groklaw must pay license fees!!!
When the site launches, and some wag *looks in mirror* finds a reason to submit a story about it every day for the first few months, one of 2 things will happen.
/. for using M$ based stuff...
Their servers will keep running at a nice, cool, 40 degrees c, and we'll all find out that they're running THEIR operating system, yeah, the one which everyone else has and THEY want to keep for themselves, or something, because they claim that it's theirs, although everyone else has it.
Or they'll be running windows..
Nice choice, effectively hang a sign around their necks saying "we're hypocrites" or have their site go down and get ridiculed on
Oh the dilemma, my heart bleeds for them...
FGD 135
Come on - "prosco.net"? At least they're not doing something like "fairandbalancedonsco.net"...
It should be fun to see what positive spins they can put on their case, and I'm sure the fellow over at GrokLaw will have a ball with what they post!
Sure it's propoganda, but it's way to late to do them any good.
--LWM
Whoa! I see my surname in ohyesyesgimmesco.cmo, heheh... "syes".
That's weird, because back in 1985, as a radioman with the sub-specialty of teletype repairmain, I was testing a teletype after after reassembling it. I had to also to a "Red" patch panel and the "Black" patch panel line tests.
As I yanked out and reinserted the short patch cord between the receive and the coupler, the RYSGRYSGRYSG (the "RYSG" test) from the signal generator spat out "SYES" midstream.
Shit! I was scared. I was wondering if this ship (the John A. Moore (FFG-19)) was haunted. It was eery. "SYES" was not part of the signal generator program, nor was anyone locally or remotely using any teletype terminals.
Anyway, that was a digressive-intro...
I thought I ALSO "prosco" was one letter off from sco's true calling: "Self-Protology." Maybe darl and company can open up their own "Church of Self-Proctology" and preach ALL the fake shit they want. Hell, they can even incorporate as a church (heheh, of the poisoned/mined (or, okay, "mind")) and get organized religion tax write-offs.
Alternatively, my mind thought, Pro TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)... reasons to avoid the sco (sinister, conniving, and orgasmic) licensing scheme co-opting (program)).
I guess sco gets the 'scoop'. Now, if only they use that scoop to dig around in their upper and lower colons and their 5 sphyncters and find out what DNA switching set them back, ummm aback.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
SCO must be the band of train robbers.
The speechwriter of Darl McBride has been sacked. Anyone offering further commentary on the person who sacked the person who was supposedly sacked, will be sacked. This thread will now continue in a completely different manner and at great expense.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Perfect Tommy: Look at all these members... Reno: Look at these names! Darl Yaya, Darl Many-Darls,Darl Bigbute... it's a joke!
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan
hope they do something fun with it.
I'll valiantly sacrifice myself at the feet of Godwin's Law:
Darl McBride is comparable to Hitler.
There, it had to be said. I know I lose the debate, but it was worth it.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
That's naught how you spell Nottingham, you insensitive clod!
This is going to bring in some real revenue for them. All they have to do is put some banner ads on the site, maybe some Google AdSense boxes... since everyone's going to be constantly visiting prosco.com to see what absurd things Darl is saying next, SCO can just sit back and let the ad revenue pour in!
It'll be more profitable than SCOsource ten minutes after the site launches!
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"If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither the law nor the facts are with you, pound the table."
SCO has gone from pounding the table to claiming the table is biased against them.
'sacked by open source-touting bandits.'
I still like that best
Lynch mob to assemble outside Darryl's office at 8:00 am (yeah I know it's early but that's when he's at work). Bring burlap bags full of bound printed matter (must be open source to be used) to bludgeon him with. I'll provide the empty bag to actually literally sack him with.
-nB
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"...they must protect their intellectual property or risk being 'sacked by open source-touting bandits.'"
Tux: *rolls a d20...*
Tux: "Sweet a 19! Does that hit?"
Dungeon Master Linus: "Yep, you've just destroyed the SCO creature"
Tux: "I kill the monster and take the treasure"
SCO creature: "Ahhh! Sacked by open source-touting bandits!"
Byzandula
What they need is a message board where editors excercised the unlimited privilige to moderate. That way, everything could stay totally one-sided while maintaining the appearance of balance.
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Uh, what about: www.sco.com?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Guess they don't expect to be using that domain name for very long ?
Speaking of SCO stock...I am damn glad I shorted it at $12.73...
My broker keeps telling me it's time to sell. I keep telling him $1.50, just wait for it...
Voltaire died defending it.
Here's the payout matrix:
McBride | Lawyers
--------+------------
STFU | Get paid
Talks | Get paid
---------------------
Where's the surprise?
Belief is the currency of delusion.
To get the truth about SCO vs IBM, we should go to prosco.net?.
Ok.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
SCO has hired Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the former Iraqi Information Minister, as their new public relations officer. He reports that the infidel operating system Linux is being crushed and destroyed by the mighty SCO Army at this very moment.
Nah. He'd just claim that SCO holds the patent for
"...Posting a link to a site with heavy traffic from technologically-savvy open source enthusiasts who disagree with companies such as SCO, and then directing said users to visit said site."
Then he would claim that it's called SCOdotting.
Perhaps we need to start making a concerted effort to inform the uninformed about technology issues? Next time you're talking to the technologically clueless you might bring up the subject of DRM/SCO/OSS/IP/etc.
I've been doing this for quite some time with great success, as evidenced by not being invited to parties anymore, friends not answering the phone when I call, and the court ordering me not to approach the postman. I miss the days when telemarketers would call.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.