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IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up

Posted by michael on from the walking-the-walk dept.

Jeffrey Johnson writes "The whole SCO and IBM case is coming to a head with new filings from IBM accusing SCO of being 'grandiose' and saying it has 'effectively conceded' that it has no evidence of infringement. It asks for evidence to be produced or the whole case thrown out. According to experts this makes it make-or-break: either SCO has to outline exactly what the issues are with Linux or the whole sorry affair is over."

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  1. put up & shut up by Pikhq · · Score: 5, Funny

    How's about put up AND shut up?

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  2. Re:About damn time by mckniglj · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were too busy laughing. I believe that they are just now done wiping the tears from their eyes...

  3. Darl's New Job by RPoet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you buy a burger from this man?

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  4. Re:(sigh) by ductormalef · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. The headline should read:

    IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up for the 23rd time (this time we really mean it, but if you don't we'll wait a few months and demand it again)

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  5. Interesting clause... by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that this was a particularly interesting clause in the filing and one that you don't often see:

    "IBM further requests extensive injunctive relief from litigants, viz, their fields shall be burned, and sown with salt; their buildings torn assunder; their leaders beaten and hanged; their animals slain, and left unto the beasts; their wives enslaved and set to lamentation; their names and images expunged from the histories and chiseled from the monuments; and their children's teeth set on edge, yea unto the seventh generation. So shall vengeance be wreaked upon those who look with enmity upon Big Blue."

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  6. Re:About damn time by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lawyers are paid by the hour.

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  7. Re:(sigh) by Scott+Richter · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why are we even still reading these things? I'll believe it when I see it.

    I don't know. Why are you?

  8. Re:more importantly by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh. The Salt Lake and Provo LUGs should get together and start a deathwatch. Basically, people would take turns outside their corporate offices, manning a sign that says, "I bid $5." Victory comes when Darl comes out and accepts the offer.

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