IBM Puts Pressure On SCO

inode_buddha writes "An article at Groklaw shows IBM's legal team dissecting the whole SCO thing professionally and thoroughly. I'm almost willing to bet the case gets dropped with extreme prejudice, especially now that Novell is getting involved. Is anyone taking bets as to when the case actually closes and how?" I suggest the MIT Technology Review add this one to their markets.

Comments

Rolling, rolling, rolling

[jonathan_ingram]

7. As of the date of this submission, IBM has provided over one hundred thousand pages of production documents to SCO. IBM intends to continue rolling its production to SCO, despite the inadequate supplemental responses we have received from SCO.

I can just picture the trucks full of paper rolling toward SCO's lawyers...

And now, the hammer falls...

[dfung]

I'm glad I'm not on the receiving end of the IBM legal machine. As a bystander I must admit that it's quite entertaining:

"Either SCO has evidence to support its accusations or it does not. If it does, IBM is entitled to see it now; "

= "shit"

"if it does not, IBM will be entitled to dismissal of this case."

="or get off the pot"

At this point, Darl's lawyer turns to him and says, "You don't think IBM has run diffs on the source tree yet, do you? Because if they have and are ready to respond, we're probably pretty much screwed".

I pity the legal associates for IBM who have had to trace the provenance of every line in the source, but their pain will be worth it when SCO releases their first specifics and are nailed to the wall.

but there are thousands of lines of copied code...

[penguin7of9]

Here is one:

break;

Here is another one:

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This blatant violation of SCO's intellectual property has occurred all over the Linux kernel and many GNU user programs.

Re:I bet ...

[orthogonal]

Is anyone taking bets as to when the case actually closes and how

Is anyone taking bets?

Are you blind man? The reason that SCOX is trading at $17.50 (that's American dollars, not Italian Lire or EverQuest gold pieces, that's American dollars my man!) is that a whole bunch of people are betting!

When a stock goes from 78 cents (that's pennies, that's less than the cheapest Slurpy at 7-11) to $22.29 in the latest 52 weeks, that's not investing, that's gambling, pure and simple.

And when the stock moves based on SCO's assertion that AT&T ultimately sold them the One Ring to rule all unix-like Oses, well... then, SCOX is Utah's Vegas, Atlantic City, and Churchill Downs all rolled into one!

"Who can take a crap SCOX/
Sprinkle it with lies/
Cover it in Boies and a GPL theft or two?/
The MacBride Man!/
The MacBride Man can/
The MacBride Man can 'cause he mixes it with FUD/
And makes the crap taste good"
(to the tune of "The Candyman Can")