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IBM Subpoenas HP, Baystar, Sun & Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-us-your-dirty-laudry dept.

nicolaiplum writes "CNet is reporting that IBM is sending subpoenas to HP, Baystar, Sun and Microsoft requiring them to disclose most of their dealings with SCO over UNIX licensing and litigation." From the article: "The subpoenas demand that Microsoft, HP, Sun and BayStar hand over a range of information, including details of their dealings with SCO, by March 7. They will also have to appear in court later in March to give depositions." Groklaw also has links to each of the subpoenas.

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  1. Re:Don't have to appear in court by hayden · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ... "commanded" to appear in various lawyers' offices.
    At which point they will be "commanded" to bend over and grab their ankles for IBM. Suddenly secretely supporting a company to launch a bullshit attack on a competitor doesn't seem so funny. And also picking a legal fight with the company that tied up the Justice Department with so much legal bullshit they gave up on their antitrust suit probably wasn't the best idea either.
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  2. Re:SCO and IBM are both the bad guys by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "and despite their hype on Linux, less than 1 percent of IBM's servers ship with it."
    But I think you are free to choose to order Linux on just about any of them. I thought that was the idea to be free to choose.
    I used to HATE IBM back in the good old days. Between Eclipse.org and all the Linux resources they have on line I am an IBM fan.

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  3. Re:I forgot about this! by AJWM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not so much Windows "killing" OS/2 -- IBM can live with that in a fair fight. It's that Microsoft was parternered with IBM on OS/2, and saying nice things about it, right up until the eve of the Windows introduction.

    Microsoft not only sucker-punched IBM on that, but also all the 3rd-party application vendors who were diligently developing for OS/2, leaving the Windows field wide open for Microsoft's Office apps.

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  4. Re:IBM doesn't play by steve_l · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, when all this is over and the books are written, SCO's choice of targets for lawsuits is going to go down there as sensible as invading russia proved to various european nation states over the centuries.

    First they pick IBM, who probably have more lawyers than R&D engineers. Then, for collateral damage, they pick on a car company, what was it, Daimer-Chrystler. I mean, car companies. They have legal departments on 24-hour call waiting to dismiss the classic "I ran over a bus queue of 8 people while drunk, it was the fault of your ABS system" lawsuits coming in every day. Having someone sue you over linux violations is just a spare time activity.

    On the other hand, from the lawyers perspective, going up against well funded legal departments guarantees large amounts of cash coming your way...