SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage 557
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.'"
Ahh ahh!!! (Score:5, Funny)
And in tonight's news, Fox News is sueing SCO over the use of the word Fair! SCO allegedly plans to countersue saying they've got prior art on using litigation to stifle competition!
More at 11!
New gold my hiney (Score:5, Funny)
Wild West?? (Score:2, Funny)
How do these things keep changing on me??
Re:I can only hope (Score:5, Funny)
Gentlemen, start your googlebombs. (Score:5, Funny)
The SCO group [groklaw.net]
etc. etc.
Whoops! (Score:4, Funny)
Well... (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new by Open Source-touting bandit overlords!
Re:WTF?? (Score:5, Funny)
ilovesco.com
ohyesyesgimmesco.com
chicksdigsc
mcbrideforprez.com
gaysforsco.com
scorgas
If Open Source is the "Wild West" then Darl.. (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody should tell him that Bill Gates has that job sewed up.
myke
pro-sco or pros-co? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We HAVE to slashdot that site! (Score:5, Funny)
-Derek
Re:I can only hope (Score:5, Funny)
I think I saw the Beta site. A lot of members, let me list some:
McBride
Dary1234
DarylM
MrMcB
These people were really pro sco. I hope he er... they don't start ScoDotting our servers
It was like one guy, but he could hit refresh REALLY fast
In Accordance with Truth-in-advertising... (Score:5, Funny)
oblig. joke (Score:2, Funny)
I think he meant it's the new FOOL'S gold."
-r
Prosco - nice abbreviation (Score:2, Funny)
Which is rather fitting. I imagine that Darl's putting on the rubber gloves right now for visitors to the site. Prosco - the only site on the web that offers a free rectal exam before they completely screw you over.
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:5, Funny)
by extension this implies that sco is guilty of carrying a concealed source... perhaps in one of those fast tear-away source holsters.
Domain expires in one year... (Score:5, Funny)
Not long now... (Score:5, Funny)
Created on: 04-OCT-04
Expires on: 04-OCT-05
Last Updated on: 04-OCT-04
Obviously, SCO feels that they aren't going to be around after this date... or one would think they would at least have bothered to splash out the extra cash for a 2-year reg rather than just a 1-year reg.
Re:Prosco domain fun (Score:2, Funny)
There's a company called PROSCO, for "Promotional and Supply Services Co.", in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.prosco.com.sa/
Prosco Internacional S.A. de C.V. is out of Mexico City. I'm not sure what they do, though their home page has a link titled "Candy Recycling". Hmm.
http://www.proscoint.com/
Sweetshops, something that sounds like was raised for convincing the US to attack Iraq.
And a company with a policy of:
1: Steal candy from children
2: Recycle?
3: Profit!
I am telling you: They are all evil!
SCO has customers??? (Score:2, Funny)
BWAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!
*deeep breath*
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Re:I can only hope (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can only hope (Score:3, Funny)
503 Error
Come on, guys, they ain't so bad (Score:5, Funny)
Now they're being picked on by all these dangerous firms on the edge of legality like "International Business Machines" (clearly a front for the communist and/or nazi party) and an irregular army of anarchist hacker geniuses.
I mean, seriously, if SCO doesn't turn this thing around, what WILL happen to Unix?
Respect My Authorita! (Score:2, Funny)
Darl: I've learned something, too: selling out is sweet because when you sell out, you get to make a lot of money, and when you have money, you don't have to hang out with a bunch of poor asses like you guys. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
---
Linus: Wow! That's a lot of seamen, Darl.
Darl: Yeah, I bought all that I could at this bank, and then I got the rest from this guy Ralph in an alley.
RMS: That's cool.
Darl: Yeah, and the sweet thing is, the stupid asshole didn't even charge me money for it. He just made me close my eyes and suck on a hose.
---
Darl: Why is it that everything today has to do with things either going in or coming out of my ass?
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Darl: Now stop wasting Bill Gates' time, you little pussy prick.
Linus: Don't take that tone with me, kid. I'll kick your ass.
Darl: Yah. Well, I'd like to see you try. I'm, like, 6 feet tall.
RMS: Yah. Well, you sound like a little bitch to me.
Darl: Bitch! Don't call me bitch, bitch!
RMS: Bring it on then, bitch!
Darl I already brung it, bitch. I brung it, opened it, and set it on the table, bitch.
----
IBM Executive: How would you like to go meet with our litigation counselor?
Darl: How would you like to suck my balls?
IBM Executive: What did you just say?!
Darl: Oh, I'm sorry (Clears throat and pulls out megaphone), actually what I said was, "How would you like to suck my balls?"
----
Linus: The note (from Carly Fiorina) says to meet her at Stark's Pond after meeting.
Linus: Whoa, maybe you can kiss her.
Darl: Or slip a little tongue.
RMS: [mumbles] Or slide a finger up her pussy.
Linus: I didn't know she had a cat.
---
Darl: That judge rulling has warped my fragile little mind.
---
Darl: I hate linux hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
Darl: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
---
Darl: Don't worry, Tweek. Your family can go on welfare. RMS's family's on welafare and they're happy, isn't that right, RMS?
RMS: Fuck you.
---
Darl: Linus, I am out of control. Yeah, I use drugs. I can do what I waunt, biatch! Yeah, I have sex, and I don't use protection! It's my hot body; I'll do what I waunt! I don't go to school and I kill people! What-evah! I'll do what I waunt!
---
RMS: Does anybody know anything about corporations?
Darl: I think my mom is a corporation.
Linus (sarcastically): Yeah, that makes sense.
aah, it's just an excuse
Re:Not long now... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I've only one word to say (Score:2, Funny)
ProSco....a troll's paradise (Score:2, Funny)
If any real arguments on either side manges to get through, I'm going to guess the pro/anti sco ratio will be like 1 pro to 100 anti.
SCO's next patent: (Score:2, Funny)
2. A method to be dissected.
3. A method to be dismissed.
Groklaw must pay license fees!!!
this should be fun... (Score:3, Funny)
Their servers will keep running at a nice, cool, 40 degrees c, and we'll all find out that they're running THEIR operating system, yeah, the one which everyone else has and THEY want to keep for themselves, or something, because they claim that it's theirs, although everyone else has it.
Or they'll be running windows..
Nice choice, effectively hang a sign around their necks saying "we're hypocrites" or have their site go down and get ridiculed on
Oh the dilemma, my heart bleeds for them...
Hey, at least it's honest (Score:3, Funny)
It should be fun to see what positive spins they can put on their case, and I'm sure the fellow over at GrokLaw will have a ball with what they post!
Sure it's propoganda, but it's way to late to do them any good.
--LWM
Re:WTF?? New Church of Self-Proctology? (Score:3, Funny)
That's weird, because back in 1985, as a radioman with the sub-specialty of teletype repairmain, I was testing a teletype after after reassembling it. I had to also to a "Red" patch panel and the "Black" patch panel line tests.
As I yanked out and reinserted the short patch cord between the receive and the coupler, the RYSGRYSGRYSG (the "RYSG" test) from the signal generator spat out "SYES" midstream.
Shit! I was scared. I was wondering if this ship (the John A. Moore (FFG-19)) was haunted. It was eery. "SYES" was not part of the signal generator program, nor was anyone locally or remotely using any teletype terminals.
Anyway, that was a digressive-intro...
I thought I ALSO "prosco" was one letter off from sco's true calling: "Self-Protology." Maybe darl and company can open up their own "Church of Self-Proctology" and preach ALL the fake shit they want. Hell, they can even incorporate as a church (heheh, of the poisoned/mined (or, okay, "mind")) and get organized religion tax write-offs.
Alternatively, my mind thought, Pro TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)... reasons to avoid the sco (sinister, conniving, and orgasmic) licensing scheme co-opting (program)).
I guess sco gets the 'scoop'. Now, if only they use that scoop to dig around in their upper and lower colons and their 5 sphyncters and find out what DNA switching set them back, ummm aback.
If this is the wild west (Score:3, Funny)
We apologize... (Score:5, Funny)
The speechwriter of Darl McBride has been sacked. Anyone offering further commentary on the person who sacked the person who was supposedly sacked, will be sacked. This thread will now continue in a completely different manner and at great expense.
buckaroo bonzai (Score:3, Funny)
in related news (Score:3, Funny)
hope they do something fun with it.
I'll take the bullet (Score:5, Funny)
Darl McBride is comparable to Hitler.
There, it had to be said. I know I lose the debate, but it was worth it.
Re:Sounds More Like.... (Score:3, Funny)
Finally, a profitable business model! (Score:5, Funny)
It'll be more profitable than SCOsource ten minutes after the site launches!
Thus proving the old adage (Score:2, Funny)
SCO has gone from pounding the table to claiming the table is biased against them.
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:3, Funny)
Or you can freely make copies of the Linux golden goose, so Darl can kill his copy, and the rest of us can just keep feeding and caring for ours.
Re:MSN NEWS REPORTS SCO IS WINNING THEIR IP CASES! (Score:3, Funny)
I still like that best
Lynch mob to assemble outside Darryl's office at 8:00 am (yeah I know it's early but that's when he's at work). Bring burlap bags full of bound printed matter (must be open source to be used) to bludgeon him with. I'll provide the empty bag to actually literally sack him with.
-nB
Those evil bandits... (Score:1, Funny)
Tux: *rolls a d20...*
Tux: "Sweet a 19! Does that hit?"
Dungeon Master Linus: "Yep, you've just destroyed the SCO creature"
Tux: "I kill the monster and take the treasure"
SCO creature: "Ahhh! Sacked by open source-touting bandits!"
Byzandula
Re:WTF?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:2, Funny)
Ahhh, the Symantec Touch.
Re:Gentlemen, start your googlebombs. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:2, Funny)
[Cue graphic of giant King Goose chasing small people with suits on]
Excuse me, but....! (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, what about: www.sco.com?
Only a one year domain registration (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SCOX going nowhere (Score:2, Funny)
My broker keeps telling me it's time to sell. I keep telling him $1.50, just wait for it...
Re:We HAVE to slashdot that site! (Score:3, Funny)
Voltaire died defending it.
Re:oblig. joke (Score:2, Funny)
In depth analysis: (Score:5, Funny)
McBride | Lawyers
--------+------------
STFU | Get paid
Talks | Get paid
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Where's the surprise?
Re:Gentlemen, start your googlebombs. (Score:1, Funny)
Let me get this straight. (Score:2, Funny)
To get the truth about SCO vs IBM [petrofsky.org], we should go to prosco.net [groklaw.net]?.
Ok.
In other news.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We HAVE to slashdot that site! (Score:3, Funny)
"...Posting a link to a site with heavy traffic from technologically-savvy open source enthusiasts who disagree with companies such as SCO, and then directing said users to visit said site."
Then he would claim that it's called SCOdotting.
Re:New gold my hiney (Score:1, Funny)
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa Doompa Da Dee
If you are wise you will listen to me.
What do you get when you steal what is free
Taking someone's work and charging a fee
What are you at trying to sue
It does not belong to you
Oompa Loompa Doompa De Da
If you're not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa Doompa De Do
Doompa De Do
Re:MSN NEWS REPORTS SCO IS WINNING THEIR IP CASES! (Score:4, Funny)
I've been doing this for quite some time with great success, as evidenced by not being invited to parties anymore, friends not answering the phone when I call, and the court ordering me not to approach the postman. I miss the days when telemarketers would call.
Re:We apologize... (Score:3, Funny)