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.'"
Prosco domain fun (Score:1, Informative)
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Here's a fun, and very, uh, fitting tidbit. The *previous* owner of the prosco.net domain was called Prosco Ventures, a sweatshop apparel exporter out of Sri Lanka:
http://www.tradenetsl.lk
Meanwhile, SCO may have a fight on their hands over their use of the "prosco" name. They've registered prosco.net, but there are a number of companies out there named Prosco, any of whom probably has a better claim on the domain than SCO does. I'm sure any of them could make a good case that their brands & trademarks would be harmed by the potential for confusion with SCO.
Prosco, Inc., is an industrial equipment manufacturer in the Chicago area.
http://www.prosco-inc.com/
There's also a Circle-Prosco, Inc., a maker of chemicals for the metal finishing industry.
http://www.circleprosco.com/
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/
Chisholm Corp., formerly Prosco Products, Inc., does filtration products.
http://www.proscoproducts.com/
Re:How long before... (Score:5, Informative)
"There are, however, no plans to allow readers to discuss the documents on the Web site. "If we opened it up to that, it would simply become another one of the message boards that our detractors use to try and overwhelm us," Stowell said."
So there will be no comments allowed on the site.
Re:How long before... (Score:4, Informative)
SCOX going nowhere (Score:5, Informative)
Nobody really cares about SCOX any more.
Nobody is going to buy SCO as an ongoing business because IBM has huge counterclaims against them. Remember, IBM is sueing SCO for stealing IBM code. [com.com] IBM released IBM code into Linux under the GPL. Then SCO resold it, but refused to accept their obligations under the GPL. So IBM revoked SCO's implied license under the GPL, which the GPL allows, and is sueing them for major copyright violations. And IBM can show (and has shown) exact copying of megabytes of IBM code by SCO.
We're getting close to the day when some of IBM's summary judgement motions get decided. If IBM wins any of those, SCO is in deep trouble. At that point, no spin control will help SCO.
Re:I can only hope (Score:5, Informative)
"The site will include a calendar of the cases SCO currently has in litigation as well as access to the legal filings made in SCO's cases. There are, however, no plans to allow readers to discuss the documents on the Web site. "If we opened it up to that, it would simply become another one of the message boards that our detractors use to try and overwhelm us," Stowell said."
Re:SCO stock prices (Score:3, Informative)
One day [yahoo.com]
6 months [yahoo.com]
Re:Don't let them win (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Can anyone hack WHOIS records? (Score:1, Informative)
PJ