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IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO

Posted by michael on from the neverending-story dept.

editingwhiz writes "Bob Mims of the Salt Lake Tribune has the scoop straight from the courthouse steps: 'A federal magistrate has handed a partial victory to Utah's SCO Group, ordering computer giant IBM to turn over more of its Linux operating system-related program codes. U.S. Magistrate Brooke Wells' ruling, released just minutes after Salt Lake City's federal courthouse closed Wednesday, came in the Lindon software company's contractual suit stemming from Big Blue's alleged distribution of Linux applications purportedly tainted with SCO's proprietary Unix code.' If at all possible, SCO's going to be even more insufferable now -- it has a glimmer of hope."

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  1. Even more code? by Mongo222 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can you turn over "even more" of something that's already open sourced?

  2. Uhm... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    Doesn't SCO know about kernel.org?

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  3. SCO loses the waiting game by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is just another meaningless delay of the case. Such things are actually a victory for IBM. IBM can afford to have this drag on forever. SCO's days are numbered.

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  4. Nothing to see here really by Psionicist · · Score: 5, Informative

    To quote Groklaw:

    Finally, it has arrived, Judge Brooke Wells' Order on SCO's Motion Re Discovery. It's annoying because she enables more delay, but other than that it is a pretty normal discovery order. SCO doesn't get access to CMVC, they do get more code and they get not all programmers' notes but some. She postpones any decision on production of documents from top managment. Keep in mind, she isn't the trier of fact. That is Judge Kimball. She is the Magistrate, so it's not her job to decide who is right or wrong. Her job is simply to make sure everybody's cards are on the table.

  5. Guilty until proven innocent? by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IANAL, far from, actually, but shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't SCO be releasing code to an independent party to determine if its copyright has been breeched? Or will they keep requesting more code and fish around for something they can 'try to claim' is a copyright violation?

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  6. meanwhile... by kidlinux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has SCO been ordered to show any code of theirs that they claim has been infringed upon?

    So IBM turns over some code, and SCO says "yep, all of that is an infringement, pay up!" How do we know otherwise?

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  7. It's simple by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Insightful
    SCO couldn't find anything conclusive in the 900 milion lines of code they've already gotten from IBM, so they have to fishing again.

    Uhh Darl, you're fifteen minutes are up.

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  8. It's not about linux kernel by Baramin · · Score: 5, Informative
    from TFA :
    Wells refused to grant SCO complete review of all of the IBM programs it listed, but threatened to grant "unfettered access" in the future if IBM fails to provide all data - including approximately 2 billion lines of code - from its AIX and Dynix systems
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  9. If Ya Want It... by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd pipe the code into a *.doc file and make the font about 48ish tahoma script.

    Then print it on standard paper.

    Hey, SCO, you might wanna bring a truck.

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