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

Haha!

[slashalive]

Gotta hope they didnt empty their trashbins!

Doh... Just make it disappear...

[ThatWeasel]

If you can't beat them, then make it disappear...

Re:Doh... Just make it disappear...

[mrsev]

NO NO ...beat them, beat them badly. I think we should abandon legal means and simple resort to violence instead. Imagine the police report:

A large pale emaciated crowd of around 5000 linux zealots arrived on the premesis at 0915. There were angry confrontations where apon said crowd did force entry to the building. The tattered corpse of Mr McBride was found hanging. Police are attempting to track down a Mr GNU, leader of this mob, as part of their enquiries.

Re:analysis link contains no data

[Randy Wang]

Wow. Almost makes me wonder if they just ran out of toner for their printer. :-)

Missing?

[AntEater]

" there are suddenly 16,209 fewer files in the privilege log"

That's awfully close to 16,384 missing files. I wonder if SCO is using MS Excel to keep track of their privilege log.

Re:Missing?

[treff89]

Yes,Excel destroyed the documents! It probably self-destructed (decompiled?) upon seeing so much anti-Microsoft information and lawsuit documents on the machine, and didn't want to go down without a fight :P

Re:Missing?

[LosManos]

hi.

>That's awfully close to 16,384 missing files. I wonder if SCO is
>using MS Excel to keep track of their privilege log.

More probably they are using old intel processors.

/OF

Re:Missing?

[William Robinson]

I am sure it is Y2K bug.

They must be having 175 more files. :D

Have they checked behind the copy machines?

[physicsphairy]

If they're not there, they should try accusing their Chinese employees of espionage.

Works every time!

Finally, an expert

[Anonymous Coward]

I just wanted to express my gratitude, that finally a legal expert wheighs in on /. with his well founded, well researched, well argued analysis of groklaw.

Just looking at the wealth of arguments you present to proof your point that groklaw is presenting "some of the worst legal analysis" you have seen during your distinguished legal career (well, I'm sure it was a very distinguished career, unfortunately you are so modest as to post as an anonymous coward, so as not draw the attention, that of course would be well deserved, to your person, but instead focus on the topic at hand, which of course leaves readers in the dark about exactly how distinguished your career was) makes my head spin.

Aweinspiring and impressive.
Thank you so much!

And to prevent invasion,

[lottameez]

all Saddam has to do is show us where the missing files are.

Re:Inside Baseball Leading /.ers to Law School?

[Pop69]

Just what the world needs, more fucking lawyers.

Re:I feel sorry -

[argent]

I feel sorry for SCO's customers.

Me too, but I've always felt sorry for SCO's customers. I've been one. And, well, even when SCO was real SCO it wasn't very nice being a SCO customer.

I don't know if I want to go into details. I'd be hear all day, and I need to be watching my blood pressure.

Re:analysis link contains no data

[Leon Yendor]

Sir. We should apologize about producing proof we cannot present, as they have mysteriously disapeared. All of them. Please, do not blame us being outrageous at the Court, we can explain that : It's Henry. In 1997, Henry downloaded games and other stuff from the internet. And he gets a virus. This malicious program was downoloaded from a finnish ftp server. This virus prevented us of printing and destroyed all our archives. We just discovered that. But we have proof that IBM stolen us the concept : they made an advertising about this sad story. (sorry, I just madde humor about a old IBM advertiqing, and in French, the name of the falwty employee was Henry)

Too verbose! What you wanted to say is: "The dog ate my homework!"

So that's where Ollie North went...

[advocate_one]

I always wondered what happened to him... looks like he's been very busy at the shredders again...

Re:So that's where Ollie North went...

[advocate_one]

I see I've run into some Mods with a total sense of humour failure again...

Re:Inside Baseball Leading /.ers to Law School?

[Anonymous Coward]

If all you're doing is sleeping, what's the point ?

I'd claim Haig McNamee to be confidential too

[DoorFrame]

I mean seriously, Haig McNamee, that's got to be a fake name right? McNamee? It sounds like someone couldn't remember the last name of the guy they talked to at IBM, thought it was Irish, and just threw McNamee down on the page. They're probably trying to protect it because it makes them look really stupid and a little bit racist.

Just a guess.

Re:Hmmm...

[tomhudson]

They sent out mail asking for money to make Linux 'legal', and yet they can't keep track of simple files.

... so now you understand why nobody can seem to get a copy of the terms of the SCO linux license ... the dog ate it, along with the 16,000 other files ...

Re:Missing documents

[kevinbr]

Maybe they can use BitKeeper? maybe they should "merge" with BitKeeper?

Re:Hey! I cheerfully accept donations, too

[petecarlson]

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Re:DAmn

[Trolling4Dollars]

Longhorn? They don't have ANYTHING on the Pot Noodle Horn! Of course, as they say in Dunnsbury, only time will tell...

Re:Inside Baseball Leading /.ers to Law School?

[aziraphale]

Baseball, eh?

You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

Possibly this is a secret trigger code. Some terrorist cell is waiting for a posting by 'stupidnickname' on the 26th of April. If it uses the word 'Baseball', then the attack should be by land - if 'basketball', then by sea...

Or, maybe you have a rare psychiatric condition which causes you to substitute the words 'inside baseball' whenever you mean 'legal arguments'...

Whatever, the bizarre use of language almost caused me to completely overlook the wild generalisation and crazed extrapolation of the rest of the post. Well done!

Re:I feel sorry -

[hawk]

>Me too, but I've always felt sorry for SCO's customers. I've been one.

Ah-HAH!

Now if we can just find the other one :)

hawk