Legal concerns of all things have caused The SCO Group to rethink it plans to launch a pro-SCO propaganda web site meant to counter the popular Groklaw site.

SCO once vowed to have a live site up by Nov. 1. It hoped to spin breaking news surrounding its ongoing Unix/Linux related cases against the likes of IBM and Novell. Such a site seemed a bit redundant given SCO's active PR corps and existing legal pages, but the company felt it needed a way to offset the analysis provided at pro-Linux Groklaw.

SCO's hopes and dreams, however, have been slowed by the very lawyers it loves. A SCO spokeswoman told IDG News Service that "legal and management concerns about the content of the Web site" have put the project on hold. At the moment the SCOinfo.com (http://www.scoinfo.com/) page has a place holder only.

"It's still up for debate whether the Web site will ever go up," the spokeswoman told IDG.

The idea for the pro-SCO site initially cropped up after SCO suffered a string of legal setbacks in its cases against IBM and DaimlerChrysler. The company seemed to want a way to massage the way observers viewed various court decisions before Groklaw could attack. One can only hope that more sober minds convinced SCO that a propaganda page would be viewed as unprofessional and painfully slanted. ®

Related stories

Whatdya mean, free software? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/02/issues_with_open_source/)
Novell to defend against open source IP attack (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/13/novell_oss_patent_defence/)
McNealy: Microsoft needs Sun to beat IBM and Red Hat (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/06/mcnealy_northwestern_talk/)
SCO's profit turns to loss as Q3 revenue tumbles (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/31/sco_q3_revenue_tumbles/)