SCO Missing 16,209 Files?

FileSortingZombie writes "After all the allegations by SCO that IBM is abusing or dragging out the discovery process, over in this story on Groklaw you can read about IBM's objections to what SCO is producing in discovery, not the least of which is that there are suddenly 16,209 fewer files in the privilege log, and IBM wants to know what's become of them. Are they unprivileged, lost, destroyed, already produced, or quite simply gone? As of yet, no one seems to know. All told, IBM found fault with some 76% of their claims, especially one case where IBM says that SCO appears to be trying to claim that a conversation it had with an IBM employee should be considered confidential. One helpful Groklaw reader went so far as to put up this analysis of the complaint on his Web site for those interested in just how objectionable IBM found SCO's filing."

Comments

Take Your Corporate Apoglism Nonsense Elsewhere

[hyfe]

we held every single corporation to blame for incorrect practices of employees and management, the economy would collapse.

The current situation is not a result of a few individual isolated wrongdoings. There are fare too many of them, and lack of long-term/real perspective is so pervavise in so many aspects of the society is downright frightening.

Me, as a fairly anti-US government European see this very clearly in your foreign policy. Sanity/long-term strategy has been thrown out of the window (christ, you guys actually invaded both Afghanistan and bloody Iraq! why oh why?!) and replaced by short-term goals and quick profits. I'm fairly certain I'd find much of the same if I payed as much attention to European foreign politics as US ones, but I'm frankly too scared to look, and am starting to prefer to keep my illusions.

I think, in the end real changes come from the bottom. The poorer people in the west has had it too good for too long now, and isn't a factor to be feared anymore. I'm fairly certain, sadly enough, that is going go change.

Re:I feel sorry -

[tomhudson]

for SCO's customers.

Why? They've had lots of time to switch. Its not like there aren't alternatives out there, you know.

If they're too lazy/stupid/whatever to realize what's going on, then they deserve to be left high and dry.

Same with the employees. No excuse not to have left that stinking pile of crap early on. Perhaps a better tactic for SCO employees would be to lie on your resume and say you were in jail for the last 5 years than admit you worked for SCO. Time will tell. These people are unemployable now.

And to all those people who say that "they can't quit - they have a family, etc", that's like saying the Pope couldn't quit the Hitler Youth because he didn't want to be "re-educated" - others made the hard choices he shied away from, and paid for it, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl. Only 80% to 90% joined, so it wasn't impossible to avoid it. Neither the Pope nor SCO employees have an excuse. And as with the pope, Time WIll Tell!

Explanation

[Trolling4Dollars]

In the midst of this kind of controversy, it's important for people to take a step back and really analyze what's going on. Groklaw has done a wonderful job at this by posting all publically available documents regarding the case and level headed analysis of said documents. However, there are a lot of people with an agenda (to tear down Linux and Free and Open software) who want to muddy the entire situation into their chest thumping war against "communism". This vocal minority is doing everything within it's power to work up the fervor and frenzy of every capitalist/neocon in their favor. At this point they have resorted to little more than schoolyard name calling and teacher's pet-ism with the court. Fortunately, the judge is on the ball and isn't falling for it.

We have the SCO folks running scared. Although the litigators (sounds like alligators) have made a good deal of money from this whole situation, they know that the jig is nearly up. In their desperation they have set loose their final secret weapon: file stealing imps. While the rest of us have been playing fairly and trying to do the right thing in court. The litigators have made deals with the devil in the hopes that they can squeeze one last drop out of their turnip. After summoning satan himself, they requested that he provide them with these specialized imps at no cost to them because they are doing "his work". Satan agreed and brought these beings into existence. From reports that I've been provided access to, I hear that they look a lot like "Darl McBride Jr." with arms and legs (if you get my drift).

This is how SCO intends to "go nuclear". They are relying on the sheer number of file stealing imps to scour the SCO source code and make certain that any evidence that THEY, in fact, stole from GNU/Linux is completely obscured. This is a frightful development, but if we can catch these imps and present them to the judge, perhaps we can prove once and for all that SCO doesn't have a case. Only time will tell...