A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones

An anonymous reader writes "The SCO Group's current fate can be neatly summarized by the title of Pamela Jones' very first article on the case, back in May 2003 — 'SCO Falls Downstairs, Hitting its Head on Every Step.' In the intervening years PJ and Groklaw can be credited with unearthing and exposing many of the flaws in SCO's case, most notably, obtaining and publishing the 1994 settlement in the USL vs BSDi case. An article at the ITPro site interviews PJ about SCO, the impact of Groklaw and future of free software and the law."

PJ vs SCO...

[MrAndrews]

Perhaps the most notable contribution PJ made to the SCO case was when it became clear Darl McBride was directing company strategy based on doing the opposite of what Groklaw contributors wanted [pttbt.ca]...

However, the strategy appeared to backfire when, on September 14, 2007, CEO Darl McBride saw a comment that read, in part: "God, I hope they don't declare bankruptcy to try and get out of this mess."

so...

[yorugua]

is SCO still alive? What it is up to? I'm going to check in netcraft to see if the rumor has been confirmed....

Old SCO stuff

[mknewman]

I've got boxes of old SCO licenses and manuals. ODT 3.0 and later. If anyone wants them let me know.

Too Gracious?

[davidsyes]

She is too kind. I think the matter is that "sco" JUMPED up at the top of the stairs, aiming on PURPOSED for the bottom. But, they jumped so hard, it broke mandibles, fractured the nose, shattered the eye socket, and snagged balls along the baluster and then had not enough breath to say, "Help, I've fallen (after JUMPING) down the stairs, and my legs are twisted. But, that's OK, because I think I have shagged myself. OK, I can feel my anus dripping, but maybe that's my teeth just passing through... Oh, wait, Why didn't we file in Texas, where we could WIN for sure... Damn, we should have reincorporated there BEFORE suing..."

Re:Something has to be done to fix the system

[Em Adespoton]

That reminds me of the old "catastrophic failure [wikipedia.org]" googlebombing a few years ago....

Re:Give her credit

[blueskies]

Maybe she is an SCO writer who was supposed to convert to backing SCO at a key moment and decided to double-cross SCO! Or they wanted to try to make it look like she was an IBM writer to make IBM look bad, but it backfired!!

Re:Something has to be done to fix the system

[phrostie]

yeah, it was like Enron, only everyone was watching the train go off the cliff this time.