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IBM Subpoenas SCO Investors, Analysts

Posted by timothy on from the tooth-and-mail dept.

Bigfishbowl writes "Forbes has an interesting article about IBM sending subpoenas to large SCO investors in an effort to compel discovery. An IBM spokesman says IBM is frustrated by SCO's reluctance to produce proof of its allegations. '"It is time for SCO to produce something meaningful. They have been dragging their feet and it is not clear there is any incentive for SCO to try this in court," he says.'"

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  1. For a good read, click by overshoot · · Score: 5, Informative
    GrokLaw's posting of IBM's "Handy Guide to SCOX Legal Obfuscation," also known as "IBM Addendum to Memorandum in Support of IBM's 2nd Motion to Compel Discovery."

    Warning: put drinks and domestic animals safely out of danger first.

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    Lacking <sarcasm> tags, /. substitutes moderation as "Troll."
  2. Laziness! by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Geez, how lazy are you people? Just check the box next to "Caldera."

  3. The beginning of the end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the stock.

  4. Re:Haha - great quote by jjo · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's worse is that a large part of the 'million' pages that SCO produced were scanned printouts of UNIX source code. Rather than burning a source code CD or DVD and mailing it to IBM, they went to enormous efforts to furnish the data in the least useful format possible. They did this even though they acknowledged that IBM would need to perform computer analysis of the code itself.

    Oh, and though they had time to send the million pages to IBM, they didn't have the chance to include the code that they have been showing for months to financial analysts, columnists, and anyone who will sign an NDA. It must have slipped their minds.

  5. Re:Just like Poker by graxrmelg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try looking under "shark":

    3. Slang. A person unusually skilled in a particular activity: a card shark.

  6. Re:Just like Poker by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Informative

    What is the Lanham Act anyway? I find two references to it at law.cornell.edu but the links don't point to the actual part of US law that they affect.

    I'm English and even *I* know what the Lanham Act is. (Or think I do, anyway.)

    The Lanham Act is a law that stops businesses unreasonably making allegations that interfere with a competitor's trade. I believe that it forms the basis of part of IBM's countersuit, and also of RedHat's action against SCO.

    *Googles to be sure*

    OK. It seems that while it's primarily about trademarks, I'm still right. You can find the whole thing here.