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SCO Denied Again In Court
CDWalton writes "Groklaw has the latest in the SCO v. IBM case. Judge Wells denied SCO the opportunity to get depositions from involved parties after the date she had specified as the cutoff for those activities." From the article: "Brent Hatch started out talking about the request to take the depositions of Intel, Oracle, and The Open Group. Judge Wells brought up her October 12, 2005 order and said that depositions MUST be completed by the cutoff date. That any that cannot be taken by that date must be forgone. Brent stated that they properly noticed the depositions before the cutoff date and that they were not taken for reasons outside his, or his client's, control ... Judge Wells asked if the subpeonas were defective in some manner. Hatch: Yes, they were."
I have been watching SCO's stock price for over a year. It goes from about $4.25 to $3.80 and goes back and forth every few days. Somebody is probably making big bucks buying and selling every few days.
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Not really. The problem with cases like this is that there's one party involved (SCO, in this case) that is not actually interested in a quick resolution - or any resolution at all. Quite the opposite, actually; SCO has been and still is trying everything it can to stall the trial as much as possible, and it will continue to do so in the future.
The reason for this is that they're ultimately paid by M$ (and maybe Sun) to create trouble - the whole trial is just a vehicle for FUD, meant to create doubt in middle and high management whether Linux is "safe" to use. Attacks from a technical perspective didn't work, so now they're trying to spread legal FUD - the same thing they've already done with patents and the like, too. The judge is probably well aware of all this, but the court still has to assume good faith and act as if the case potentially has merit.
It's not clear to me how to deal with problems like this without also adversely affecting those who actually *do* have a good reason to sue and who *are* interested in a quick resolution (where it's possible).
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Not really. The problem with cases like this is that there's one party involved (SCO, in this case) that is not actually interested in a quick resolution - or any resolution at all
The truth is that other party, IBM, also wants to strech this out even longer than SCO does, in order to bankrupt them. That's why IBM has loaded up the case with stupid patent claims, investigations into Microsoft, fights over old AIX source code and a bunch of other stuff which prevents a quick resolution.
IBM is representing IBM here, not concerned Linux users who want SCO FUD dismissed quickly. The reality is that the case will go on forever because neither party really wants it to end.
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What looks really interesting the IBM supoena's to HP, M$, SUN and Baystar. When the house of cards SCO builds finally gets blown away, will it reveal itself as a FUD campaign by those 4? If so does it open up those companies for lawsuits by IBM, RedHat, etc..?