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An interesting development, at least from our point of view - CNet news.com reports that the SCO Group plans to launch a Web site to chronicle its legal battles relating to Unix and Linux, as part of an effort to counterbalance Groklaw.net, which was set up to poke holes in the company’s legal claims. Blake Stowell of SCO says:

The site will be designed to be informational for people desiring to follow the company’s litigation. We’ve received a lot of feedback from people saying, ‘I would like to follow what’s going on, but I would prefer to not have to visit Groklaw.

As we all know Groklaw is a blog. It is run by paralegal Pamela Jones and provides legal filings and detailed analyses of SCO’s legal cases with IBM, Novell, AutoZone, DaimlerChrysler and Red Hat. It is a place where open-source fans who generally disparage SCO’s legal attack congregate. The fact that SCO feels the need to ‘counterbalance’ the blog’s function and influence should say something about the effectiveness of putting forward one’s own story using an interactive and dynamic tool such as blog.

The funny thing is that SCO does not get it, surprise, surprise and will not go the whole blog, er hog. Unlike Groklaw, SCO will not enable comments - another surprise, surprise - to let others express their opinions on their site and its main function will be featuring an archive of legal filings, hearing dates and SCO positions on various matters. Simply thrilling.