SCO Gives up on Linux Website

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SCO Gives up on Linux Website

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 2, 2004 @02:38AM from the but-i-want-to-hear-their-side dept.

Richard Mathias writes "Following on from the posting a month ago, where SCO said it was going to launch a new website to counteract Groklaw and give its side of things - well, now the company looks like it's given up on the whole plan. It was originally supposed to be at Prosco.net, then SCOinfo.com, but both have holding pages and a spokeswoman has said it may never happen at all because of "legal and management concerns"." Update: 11/03 01:10 GMT by T : editingwhiz writes "Despite earlier published reports, SCO Group is indeed still planning to post a lawsuit-information Web site under a new name, SCOinfo.com, company spokesman Blake Stowell told IT Manager's Journal today. So SCO is not throwing in the proverbial towel after all. But does it really make any difference? (IT Manager's Journal is part of OSTG.)"

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Looks to me... by leonmergen · 2004-11-02 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Looks to me that website was to Groklaw what Elgoog is to Google - a fun but twisted way to look at reality... :-)

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1. Re:Looks to me... by aurelian · 2004-11-02 04:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Guess they should have called it Walkorg then.. sounds like one of Tolkien's monsters. Which is kind of appropriate.
Just goes to show... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-02 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

You can only throw shit for so long before your arm gets tired.
1. Re:Just goes to show... by beacher · 2004-11-02 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  FTA..... "The purpose is to provide factual information regarding SCO's litigation".. and you wonder why the website is empty?
  At least someone has a semblance of reality over there or somehow escaped their twisted alternate universe....
Wow! by forgotten_my_nick · 2004-11-02 02:41 · Score: 4, Funny

SCO is still around? Thought they died months ago.
1. Re:Wow! by AndroidCat · 2004-11-02 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They died years ago. Now they're just shambling around like a zombie, causing damage and panic, and looking for brains. So far they haven't found any.
  
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2. Re:Wow! by Karma+Farmer · 2004-11-02 02:49 · Score: 2, Funny
  Well, at this point SCO can't even afford to create a website, so it's probably all over but the lawsuits.
  
  Though, I can't see why they wanted to create a website anyhow. Who would be the target audience?
  
  Potential new customers?
  Current customers who haven't committed to migrating away?
  ...
  Underpants Gnomes?
  Heck, the lawyers probably own most of the equity in the company by now anyhow. They're probably less interested in an actual business plan that McBride is.
3. Re:Wow! by Blob+Pet · 2004-11-02 03:13 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Someone needs to tell them Halloween was Sunday.
  
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4. Re:Wow! by EvilAlien · 2004-11-02 04:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Its important that we're all prepared for assault by unknown evil such as al Qaeda, Iraq, SCO, or Zombies: Zombie Survival Tactics.
  I'm not sure any of those tactics will protect against SCO/Darl Zombies, however.. coming soon on Fox: "When Darls Attack".
  
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5. Re:Wow! by AndroidCat · 2004-11-02 05:14 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No, I don't have Dawn of the Dead (2004), fsck off and go away!!!
  Oh, sorry! Yesterday I got a dirty DHCP IP address, and all day long there was a continuous stream of Gnutella clones knocking on my port 6346 and asking for part of that movie. I could turn away some of them with a "HTTP/1.1 404" response, but the P2P net kept sending more of them to look for the last piece of that movie. Eventually I gave them a 302 Moved response and told them that the Location was themselves, but I'm not sure if their protocol supports that.
  Silly me, I should have told them that SCO was the best place to look for zombie flicks.
  
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6. Re:Wow! by tomhudson · 2004-11-02 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ... t this point SCO can't even afford to create a website, ...
  They can afford to create a web site (what's that cost nowadays ... pretty much nothing).
  Problem is, they can't afford the $699.00 linux binary license for the server :-)
slashdotted? by Tanktalus · 2004-11-02 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

First time I ever saw a site slashdotted before it went live...
1. Re:slashdotted? by AndroidCat · 2004-11-02 02:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It looks like it's doing okay. Check it out and hit refresh a few times to make sure.
  
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Legal concerns? by dnaboy · 2004-11-02 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

SCO? Who'd have thunk it.
SCO be a happy place to work by lottameez · 2004-11-02 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't even imagine how depressing it must be to work at that place. Can't even manage to put up a website with their version of the truth.

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I think Nelson Muntz said it best by castlec · 2004-11-02 02:47 · Score: 1, Funny

HA HA!!!!

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I thought that speaking of SCO... by gmac63 · 2004-11-02 02:48 · Score: 3, Funny

...was forbidden. If not, it should be.
Oh, damn, I said "SCO". Doh, I said "SCO" again! GD, There I go again. "SCO" right there in print.
Auughhh! Crap. I just can't keep from saying "SCO".

SCO. SCO. SCO. SCO. SCO.

Sorry for that folks. The author has comitted suicide for saying "SCO". Oooops, sorry for saying "SCO". Ahhhh, sorry for saying "SCO again". Oh, no. There I go saying "SCO". Forgive me...

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Sorry, but I have to say it.... by cyberkahn · 2004-11-02 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet. :-)
The site will be up... by Dinosaur+Neil · 2004-11-02 02:49 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm sure the site will be up just as soon as they present some actual evidence of how IBM done them wrong...

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Management Concerns.... by MosesJones · 2004-11-02 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

At SCO ? I mean how likely is that ? These are people who think that attacking IBM is a good company move. This means either two things

1) The site was actually a good idea

2) SCO management have gone past insantiy and out the otherside, potentially a large number of times.

I doubt its 1, so it must be 2, which is fantastic as all we need to do is wire them up to a magnet and coil and that constant rotation from sanity to madness will enable us to create cheap, non-polluting energy. The only by product of this generation would be an increase in Slashdot posts around the madness peak, but hopefully we can pull that energy in as well.

Other potential energy sources included the quantum state of Iraqi WMDs, but unfortunately their state has now resolved itself.

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The real reason? by ConceptJunkie · 2004-11-02 02:52 · Score: 5, Funny

and a spokeswoman has said it may never happen at all because of "legal and management concerns"."

Maybe they looked at their own argument and realized it even looked stupid to them.

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SCO Fail It! by cheezemonkhai · 2004-11-02 02:54 · Score: 4, Funny

SCO has noticed code violations in other website which are directly taken from our own site.

Due to this we have pulled our site to prevent further theft and will be taking legal action to defend our interlectual property.

Examples of stolen code include:

- used on many lines in may pages.
- used on many lines in may pages.

- used on other pages and I guess we should have used XHTML too ;)

On consultation with out lawyers they said this case whad a good chance of being profitable, although they didn't say who for ;)
read as... by catdevnull · 2004-11-02 02:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Read "legal and management concerns" as "We're tired of DDoS attacks and getting rooted by people who know more about *nix than we do."

he he

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They found prior art by AndroidCat · 2004-11-02 02:58 · Score: 5, Funny

when they researched the term sock-puppet. (Mainly the Usenet usage where a kook creates dozens of alternate identities to agree with himself; but usage of a cheap puppet with a hand up its bum works too.)

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How about.. by freaksta · 2004-11-02 03:00 · Score: 2, Funny

scowho.org ?

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``legal and mamagement concerns'' REALLY means: by nels_tomlinson · 2004-11-02 03:01 · Score: 4, Funny

... a spokeswoman has said it may never happen at all because of "legal and management concerns".
``Legal concerns'' probably means their lawyers told them: ``If you do this, we won't be able to maintain the fiction that you have a case.''
``Management concerns'' probably means that management didn't think it would pump the stock up enough to make up for the lawyers jumping ship.

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Looks to me by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-02 03:10 · Score: 1, Funny

Wouldn't the appropriate website be SCOnfusion.com?
it may never happen at all because of legal by frovingslosh · 2004-11-02 03:46 · Score: 4, Funny

it may never happen at all because of "legal and management concerns".
Makes sense. I expect the lawyers and management pointed out that SCO would certainly never say anything about someone else that was not 100% true, and a program of wild accusations would be unseemly for a respected member of the community.

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Re:Did the lawyers have a say? by Hieronymus+Howard · 2004-11-02 04:15 · Score: 3, Funny

taking this as legal advice without asking a real lawyer is like drinking poision to see what it tastes like

Yes folks, always get a real lawyer to drink poision for you.
Re:No posts by badasscat · 2004-11-02 05:34 · Score: 2, Funny

I suspect that "legal and management concerns" is shorthand for "legal was concerned that management was full of idiots".

And legal isn't?

I think you're giving them entirely too much credit. I think Darl probably just couldn't figure out how to get FrontPage to put the site up for him, and finally gave up.
Re:Perhaps occasional lying is better than constan by enormouspenis · 2004-11-02 05:40 · Score: 1, Funny

My understanding is that they had two working business models: 1)Allow posting for a few weeks and then sue all the posters 2)Threaten to sue and shut down the entire internet if no one posted Internal infighting shut the whole plan down.

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