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SCO Asks IBM To Make SCO's Case For It

acousticiris writes "According to an analysis of Friday's memorandum from SCO on Groklaw: 'If I had to characterize it in a brief sentence or two, the sentence would be that SCO tells the court, "How are we supposed to know what code IBM misappropriated? It's up to them to prove our case for us."...' It's also interesting to note that in Friday's memorandum, footnote 4, SCO uses Eric Raymond's Jargon File entry for FUD to take pot shots at IBM (footnote 4). Evidently, Eric was not pleased, according to the updated entry."

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  1. WOW by JAJ5818_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    Prove the case for them? WOW! How utterly embarrasing can one company get? Those dumb wops.

  2. RTFA by black+mariah · · Score: 1, Troll

    SCO isn't saying "We don't know what code you put into Linux, so give us everything you have." If you would bother to read the document and not just the replies, you'd see that SCO is looking for the individuals responsible and trying to find out when the code was put into Linux.

    The analogy is that people were exposed to toxic materials, but didn't know how. SCO's code was supposedly exposed to Linux, but they don't know how. They want IBM to find out who put the code in, and when, and then tell them. Never is any code mentioned anywhere in that particular paragraph.

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