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Red Hat Cornering SCO in Delaware

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the inching-forward dept.

LordNite writes "There is a great article over at Groklaw on the latest motion in the RedHat's Delaware suit. RedHat has filed for the start of discovery. Looking at the list of documents RH is requesting it looks like SCO will finally have to come clean. Naturally SCO is trying to stall. It looks like the beginning of the end of this whole mess." The faster this can get into court and be over, the better.

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  1. Linux Lottery? by taviso · · Score: 4, Interesting

    45. All documents concerning a Linux Lottery or the phrase the "Linux Lottery'.

    Thats a new one on me, anyone have any clue where this phrase comes from or what it means..why are RH interested in it?

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  2. Can the judge tell if SCO is trying to stall? by tehanu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am not a lawyer so maybe some people with more experience can tell me - is it usually obvious to a judge (it may be obvious to us in the case of SCO, but that's an entirely different matter) if someone is trying to stall for time, how do judges usually look upon this sort of behaviour (do they shrug their shoulders or get pissed off?) and if they do get annoyed what can they do to the stalling party?

  3. Could this massively implode on SCO? by swb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a chance that this could massively implode on SCO?

    I'd wager there must have been some "UNIX" code in Linux at one time, albeit not intentionally and perhaps only small chunks for SCO to have made any claim at all.

    But let's presume that RH's discovery finds the code was relatively small, inserted accidentally or under false pretenses, and not part of the current development of Linux.

    Could SCO then be shown to be grossly misrepresenting their claims and mooting any licensing claims they made and perhaps open SCO's executives to claims of fraud, stock maniplation, or at least highly vulnerable to civil action from companies who could claim their misrepresentation had a chilling effect on their business?

    If someone can get the man behind the curtain exposed, this could all come crashing down around the SCO guys..