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SCO Gives up on Linux Website
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.)"
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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SCO is still around? Thought they died months ago.
First time I ever saw a site slashdotted before it went live...
SCO? Who'd have thunk it.
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.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet. :-)
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.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
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.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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 "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
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
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.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
``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.
See what I've been reading.
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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