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SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage

Posted by timothy on from the whiplash-backlash dept.

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.'"

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  1. IBM's rule during WWII by bstadil · · Score: 0, Troll
    International Business Machines" (clearly a front for the communist and/or nazi party)

    Unfortunately the latter assertion was close to true, during WWII. See TheRegister or just google. Lot's of stuff out there

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  2. Its a very nice thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...and one I have been putting into practice for years. I can group my responses into three general categories:

    1) Wow, I had no idea. That's all very interesting and thank you! (this is by far the smallest category, limited primarily to semi-geeks or aspiring geeks).

    2) But you see I DON'T CARE. I don't CARE who knows what I buy at the grocery store, or who knows my SSN number, or who gets their software bundled on my computer, or who gets the money from my CD purchases, what the SCO is doing, what the long-term economic impact of Microsoft's business strategies may be, or any of it. I just DON'T CARE. (this is by far the most common response).

    3) You are just jaded. Microsoft is the biggest company because they clearly have the best product, and we live in a free country which means that companies should be free to enjoy the success of their business strategies. The same is true of the *AA and so on. Intellectual Property is a real issue and a beneficial legal precedent is currently being established. You can take your hippy-ideals about anarchic freedom and whine somewhere else (this is the second most common response...somewhere between the response level of the first two).

    As self-defeating as it sounds, it may very well be that the typical-educated-geek's opinions on this sort of issue are simply in the underwhelming minority, and as such will not be given much consideration at all, neither now nor in the future, by any of the powers that be.