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SCO Gives up on Linux Website

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. When the truth comes out... by thewiz · · Score: 1, Interesting

    the liars start running.

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  2. Speaking of SCO... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Interesting


    For those who haven't checked lately, SCOX has been trading at around 3.0 lately.

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    1. Re:Speaking of SCO... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      For those who haven't checked lately, SCO is down 5% over he past trading week, RHAT is down 8%.

      Yes, and whatever portion of the fall in RHAT stock that has been caused by false information and threats in the press and directly to current and potential RHAT customers (such as the demands for "licensing fees" for SCOX IP fron Linux users) becomes an issue for the courts. I believe that RHAT has already filed under the Lanham act with the courts for trebled damages. The courts will sort that out later, but trebled damages from an 8% fall in RHAT Market Cap is more than the entire worth of SCOX.

  3. Clever monkeys by /ASCII · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Guess they figured out that it is easier to track down lies in websites than in complex legal documents, speeches and interviews.

    This way they can continue to make snide remarks about groklaw beeing owned by IBM without backing their claims.

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  4. Keeping a low profile by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 4, Interesting
    To date, SCO's actions have been a little like sticking your head up out of the foxhole -- with about a thousand guns trained on your position. Every time they try to take a shot themselves, they get pounded with a barrage of fire from several different directions. So if you have any sense, you just stay down and don't give them anything to shoot at.

    SCO doesn't have much on it's side. The more they encourage effort on the part of their adversaries, the more they have to lose. Perhaps they believed that in this overly intellectual property-conscious land, they would get sympathy, but if so, that was a miscalculation.

  5. For $3 by forgotten_my_nick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would buy one share. Is it possible to get the share in paper format that will look nice framed? Might make a good history piece.

  6. Re:Management Concerns.... by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think #1 may in fact be correct. SCO *needs* good spin on this issue, and we all know Darl isn't providing it. Given proper implementation, they could possibly help themselves with such a site.

    I doubt they'd win the case, but their share prices may go up long enough to sell out.

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  7. Re:Perhaps occasional lying is better than constan by happyemoticon · · Score: 4, Interesting
    My suspicion is that SCO realised that it'd be deadly dull with no posting.

    Groklaw: Provides legal docs; presents a point of view which does not get media coverage; and, allows people to discuss the issues.

    They already have a repository for legal docs somewhere on their main site. Their highly publicized press releases are partisan to their viewpoint. They are not really interested in posts from people in the "community" because there is no community; they are more unilaterally despised than any other computer company today, perhaps in the last ten years.

    QED, a website would have been a redundant waste of the precious little money they have left.

  8. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Basically Gamblers are buying the stock.

    It is like playing the Lotto. becasue the case isn't over yet. For $100 an investor has a chance to make much much more if SCO somehow pulls out a trump card and makes a comeback. If they loose then the investor has only lost $100.

    As for the what do think they are getting, the think they are getting a Lottery ticket and they are. Remeber, the case isn't over yet and with the current fuckwad that is the American legal system, I woudln't count SCO ut just yet.

  9. What about the Indians? by ebooher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While we have all joined each other in loud, hearty guffaws at the rate at which SCO as a company has driven itself to hell without aid of handbasket, I must take a moment for an aside.

    According to the SCO website, they are still attempting to deliver a UNIXWare(R) product. This means that they *must* still have technically savvy folks working for them. Slaving over a hot pentium all day to cook us up some UNIXWare(R) goodness. How do they find the strength to get up in the morning and make the drive to work? For that matter, how does Darl McBride? The writing has been on the wall for quite a while now. How many of them are just hanging in, hoping for a long enough tenure with the company to get *something* out of all their hard work?

    This only causes to reenforce in my mind an earlier (albeit drunken) revelation I had about the truths of the online community that is /. I am sorely tempted to register a holding company, some Corporation designed to hold stock. I know there are legal Corp Classes that are allowed to do such things. Get everyone on every online forum I can find to be shareholders of the Holding Company and use all share money to outright purchase SCO and end this once and for all.

    I mean, they do have *some* validity to the claim that they own UNIX(R) Source. I'm not quite sure how much they truly own lock/stock. But what happens when their bubble *does* bust? We all know it's coming, we all know it's going to happen. Think that which is the UNIX(R) Source will suddenly become automagically opened?

    Most likely Microsoft or some other non open friendly giant will swoop in at the last minute and purchase up what remains of the UNIX(R) Source so that it will forever remain in a corporate collective somewhere. If it is Microsoft, they would probably begin the litigation anew. After they ran patents for everything and anything that looked like it might clear the US Patent Office in favor of the new owners.

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    1. Re:What about the Indians? by antiMStroll · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'm not sure what relevence the ownership of Unix really is. Linux is not Unix and doesn't appear to contain any closed Unix code. SCO's claim revolves around stolen code, a claim backed by arguably the most famous legal firm in the US and still it goes nowhere. Microsoft 'buying' Unix and taking up the baton only exposes them to further accusations of anti-competitive practices and pits them directly against IBM. My guess is if MS really is behind this they'll find other ways to do Linux damage and let SCO quickly fade away.

  10. SCO press releases by mobiGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has anyone noticed an absolute lack of "SCO headlines" since May? http://www.sco.com/company/news/ Really wicked change in PR-direction, is it not?

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  11. Not too surprising for me. by Robotron2084 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was actually emailed by a sco representative who wanted to link to one of my animations on their website. Here's most of it:
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    We are putting a site together that will go live on November 1 and have a link on the site called "Just for Fun."

    We would like to link to your site to give people access to "Steve the Linux Super Villian." It's absolutely hilarious and we would love to profile that on this section of the site, just to show people that we have a sense of humor.

    May we have your permission to link to your site from our site?
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    To which I replied:

    ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT A DOUBT, NO.

    Obviously they didn't notice my Penguin Blood Ninja FiaSCO animation.

    I'm not too surprised by today's news!

  12. SCO had to shut up. IBM was quoting them. by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting
    SCO's output of over-the-top press releases stopped about the time IBM started quoting them in court filings. It looks bad to the judge when the plaintiff is making public statements that contradict what they're saying in their court filings. And SCO definitely did.

    Over on the stock front, SCOX is at $2.93 today, continuing the long, slow slide of the last year. Since July, the price decline has been almost a straight line on a linear scale. The market cap seems to be tracking how much cash SCO has left, which means the market is valuing SCO's UNIX rights at zero.

  13. http://karatebob.com is an SCO web site. by r39525 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What a strange thing. Check out these two web sites:
    http://karatebob.com
    http://www.karatebob .com/main.html

    The first is an SCO web site and the second is some guy with a minimal Slackware-friendly site.

  14. Heh, funny. by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "legal and management concerns"

    You mean other than not owning Linux and having no case, right? Cause that didn't stop SCO before...

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  15. Re:Management Concerns.... by shotfeel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which opens another can-O-worms -misleading investors.

    If SCO "publishes" misleading information on their web site, and people make investments based on that information, seems they could be in for another round of lawsuits aimed at them.

    IANAL.. ...but I play one on the internet.