SCO to launch legal Web site

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The SCO Group plans to launch a Web site to chronicle its legal battles relating to Unix and Linux, as part of an effort to counterbalance Groklaw.net--which was set up to poke holes in the company's legal claims.

The site, to be called Prosco.net, will feature an archive of legal filings, hearing dates and SCO positions on various matters, spokesman Blake Stowell said Tuesday. The Lindon, Utah-based company plans to launch the site by Nov. 1, he said.

"The site will be designed to be informational for people desiring to follow the company's litigation. We've received a lot of feedback from people saying, 'I would like to follow what's going on, but I would prefer to not have to visit Groklaw,'" Stowell said. Groklaw, run by paralegal Pamela Jones, provides legal filings and detailed analyses of SCO's legal cases with IBM, Novell, AutoZone, DaimlerChrysler and Red Hat. It's popular with open-source fans who generally disparage SCO's legal attack.

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#1 xxpor on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:33

oy vey

(1 reply) #2 FuhrerDarqueSyde on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:35

http://www.neonblu.com/upload/scodollar.jpg

#2.1 Sporkguy on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:42

lol how many SCO-Dollars would buy that dude's hairstyle

(4 replies) #3 Sporkguy on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:41

are SCO anything more than sad, penny-pinching greedy idiots?

#3.1 gameguy on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:48

They claim their property was stolen. The linux community claims it wasn't. Who are you going to listen to?

#3.2 roadwarrior on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:57

Actually, SCO can't decide WHAT they want to claim from one day to the next.

#3.3 dp123 on 13 Oct 2004 - 21:57

What are you suggesting? In recent months, the motions and evidence have been pretty damning against SCO. It's not just a matter of one claim versus another. It's a matter of a weak legal argument with zero evidence versus a strong one with tons of evidence.

#3.4 toadeater on 13 Oct 2004 - 23:00

SCO are just milking this for what it's worth. They know they're not going to win, but as long as Microsoft and others continue to donate to them, they'll continue to spread their FUD. They're basically paid attack dogs at this point, similar to the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush.

#4 matt74441 on 13 Oct 2004 - 22:14

Wow these guys are still around?

(1 reply) #5 Chicane-UK on 13 Oct 2004 - 22:28

Jeez SCO - your laughable case (which changes every other week) has been blown to pieces already by IBM and the Linux community which BELIEVES in its product - your attempts to try and sue the people who wrote the products you are fcuking selling have failed - pack up and crawl off to liquidation.

#5.1 Zirus1701 on 13 Oct 2004 - 22:40

Agreed.

#6 tapo on 14 Oct 2004 - 01:00

Why won't SCO just die already?

#7 RaZZoR on 14 Oct 2004 - 09:26

SCO is going DOWN!!

#8 blackice912 on 14 Oct 2004 - 10:43

On their site:

We're right, you're wrong.*

*By reading the above, you give us every right to sue you. In fact, we have your IP. We know where you live. Expect a letter in the mail.

(2 replies) #9 Magallanes on 14 Oct 2004 - 13:44

anyways, if sco kill linux then you can go to bsd, bsd is more stable and easy that linux.

#9.1 GamblerFEXonlin on 14 Oct 2004 - 16:09

hm. if the had common driver platform, common open standards like openGL and openAL and stuff could I write a program or a driver that would run on both linux and BSD?

mobile phones have a common standard (or dancefloor if you want) that everybody can make networks and cell phones for, and PC hardware also have common standards.

why not PC software too? M$ is an illegal monopoly, why not open the their standards, APIs etc.

#9.2 tapo on 14 Oct 2004 - 16:10

SCO won't kill linux though, as they have absolutely no case. I'm not saying they have a flawed case, oh no, this is beyond flawed.

(And I don't like BSD because of it's license. I want my hard work to stay in the community and be improved upon. Not taken by say, Microsoft or Apple.)

Edit as I just noticed another reply:

GamblerFEXonlin: I've never used BSD, though I think you'd be able to port between the two systems pretty easily. Also, FreeBSD provides Linux binary compatibility, so they'll be able to run without modification.

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