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Judge Petitioned To Unseal SCO-IBM Court Records
An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw is reporting that Maureen O'Gara has applied to the judge to open all and any filings or transcipts that till now have been sealed by the Utah district court hearing the SCO Group's $5 billion suit against IBM. Groklaw's Pamela Jones notes that 'O'Gara believes the public can't understand the case, because of the sealing' and some of the Groklaw.net members seem to agree that, that since in the U.S. any citizen has a right to review court records in order to monitor the performance of a judge, that O'Gara's 'motion to intervene' will most likely succeed." An anonymous reader writes that Jones last night said of the request "that she is 'of two minds' about the filing: 'I'm crazy wild to read everything. But on the other hand, the court and the parties wouldn't seal things without a reason that seems good to them. I believe in privacy, personally, and I don't think the public has a "right" to know everything.' The legal filing to unseal everything has not yet become available via Pacer."
Sigh. I only came here because Groklaw was all slow. I know why now. *grumble*
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
I, too, am crazy wild to read everything about this case.
you know sometimes I get these funny images in my head. when I read this headline I had to picture a combination of two movie scenes. the first would be when they open the ark in indiana jones and the lost ark. the second would be the ghostbusters II scene when the Scoleri brothers come back for the judge.
as in: judge breaks the seal, evil spirits fly around the room causing peoples faces to melt, but then turning into a ghostly darl in the electric chair. The judge looks scared and says NO... not Darl SCOleri!!! I gave him the chair years ago! (judge's face melts from the evil influence of darl).
*sniff*... sorry I just get a little emotional at the notion of darl getting the electric chair.
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
Here's an extract:
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SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
Judge: What is it?
SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I'm Evil", look at the way he waddles along in his "oh so innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, oh no, he doesn't fool SCO
Judge: Get the hell of my court!
unix is made out of PEOPLE... PEOPLE!!
Here's an extract:
...
SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
Judge: What is it?
SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am a evil penguin", look at the way he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, OH NO! he doesn't fool SCO
Judge: Get the hell out of my court!
If we wanted more transparency in the world...
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they could start by unsealing the usernames of all these anonymous cowards on
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I know there is a "Soviet Russia" Joke in there, but those jokes are only told by Elderly Koreans.
Do your "tax dollars" entitle you to peruse IBM's source code? And do IBM's tax dollars entitle them to peruse yours?
No, the GPL does.
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