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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
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.
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prosco isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternatives:
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"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.
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At first I thought prosco.com was for pros. co., as in "A Prosecuting Company". That about sums it up.
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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 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...
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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
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. ;-)
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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?
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.
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
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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Here's the payout matrix:
McBride | Lawyers
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STFU | Get paid
Talks | Get paid
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Where's the surprise?
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