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FSF Subpoenaed by SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bradley M. Kuhn on the FSF website: Late last year, we were subpoenaed by SCO as part of the ongoing dispute between SCO and IBM. Today, we made that subpoena available on our website. This is a broad subpoena that effectively asks for every single document about the GPL and enforcement of the GPL since 1999. They also demand every document and email that we have exchanged with Linus Torvalds, IBM, and other players in the community. In many cases, they are asking for information that is confidential communication between us and our lawyers, or between us and our contributors."

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  1. Non issue by Jailbrekr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So lawyers are petitioning for confidential information from other lawyers, knowing it is confidential?

    Why, preytell, have there been no petitions to have SCOs lawyers disbarred yet?

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  2. Re:Overburden them by dprovine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I understand from my attorney friends that giving people a zillion documents is known as `papering them over'. A prosecutor of my acquantance tells me that well-designed subpoenas try to avoid the situation where you end up with 23 pallet loads of paper.

    What that says to me is that SCO's lawyers have specifically asked to be papered over, so as to have lots more billable hours for the time spent reading all the irrelevant paperwork.

    It's possible, in fact, that they'll bill for 500 hours of reading these papers when they don't bother to read any of it at all; how would SCO prove that they didn't do it?