SCO To Launch Legal Web Site

Poor SCO! It has been so unfairly treated by the folks at Groklaw, so it’s setting up a Web site to counter the Groklaw effect. According to SCO, numerous requests have been made for such a service. Yeah, right! Anyway, what does Groklaw think of this move? I love the simple eloquence of the reply, so please allow me to quote:

“I am surprised their lawyers let them do commentary on an ongoing case, but I have confidence my readers will continue to come to Groklaw for what they like about Groklaw, which is that they trust me and they enjoy what I write and they are participants in a community.

“I like the touch about it being due to consumer demand. Must be the same group that they allege begged them to do SCOSource.

“I think SCO has misdiagnosed their problem. They think their problem is that they haven’t gotten their side of the story out. That isn’t their problem.

“On court filings, anyone can get the court filings in the IBM case for free on Pacer and for pennies in the other cases. If that is all they are offering, I doubt it will draw.

“That isn’t primarily what people come to Groklaw for, anyway. If they did, they could skip the articles and head straight to the Legal Docs page, which has the filings with no commentary, or one of the Timeline pages, which also provides legal filings without commentary.

“Having said that, if all SCO’s trolls would desert Groklaw and head on over to the new SCO website and stay on the compound over there, that would be lovely.”

Well said! I will be the first to admit I don’t get the full import of a lot of the stuff written by Groklaw, but this one is worth the read. Get the full story here.