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IBM Says SCO Willfully Failed To Detail Evidence

Robert wrote to mention a piece on CBR Online where the latest volley in the SCO case is covered. IBM is now accusing SCO of having acted in bad faith when they opened the trial against IBM, by being purposefully vague in their evidence. From the article: "All in all, according to IBM, SCO's evidence filing makes it impossible for the company to defend itself. 'By failing to provide adequate reference points, SCO has left IBM no way to evaluate its claims without surveying the entire universe of potentially relevant code and guessing ... Since only SCO knows what its claims are, requiring such an exercise of IBM would be as senseless and unfair as it would be Herculean.'"

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  1. SCO being vague in their claims? by onallama · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other breaking news, water is wet.

  2. All SCO is asking.. by scsirob · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. is for IBM to figure out where SCO's code is. Is that so much to ask for?

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    To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
  3. Wow 198 of 201 items without evidence. by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other 3 items are now listed here in all their glory:

    //

    /*

    */

    IBM Willfully copied these lines and should burn in hell.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
    1. Re:Wow 198 of 201 items without evidence. by (H)elix1 · · Score: 5, Funny


      The other 3 items are now listed here in all their glory: // , /* , and */


      That must be valuable SCO IP. As soon as I removed all //, /*, and */ references from the code, and most code will not compile anymore. Fortunately, it would seem my coworkers are not using any of this infringing IP.

  4. IBM's stance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the SCO sucks as much as mr. Slooby.

  5. Re:Two Words for IBM--Edit Distance by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 4, Funny

    The case is a trade secret though. If they reveal it, then people will know they have no case, destroying the company.

  6. Huh? by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since only SCO knows what its claims are, requiring such an exercise of IBM would be as senseless and unfair as it would be Herculean.

    Wait a second.... who ever said that SCO knows what its claims are?

  7. What's left? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently if the judge accepts the motion, the only
    case SCO has left is over someone at IBM calling Darl a poo poo head.

  8. In related news... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rumour says that SCO has given IBM a reference book to help find the copyrighted material.

  9. Re:what no groklaw link? by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    How can you have a comment complaining about a lack of a link to Groklaw and not link to Groklaw??

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  10. Re:Two Words for IBM--Edit Distance by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other words,

    <STEREOTYPE version="female">
    SCO: You know very well what you did, and if you don't, I'm certainly not going to tell you!
    </STEREOTYPE>

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  11. Re:Two Words for IBM--Edit Distance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    However, if it follows the male/female discussion pattern:

    After much argument...
    <STEREOTYPE version="female">
    SCO: Here. Here is the code. And I hope you are proud of yourself!
    </STEREOTYPE>
    <STEREOTYPE version="male">
    IBM: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Can we have sex now?
    </STEREOTYPE>

  12. Only works for Mothers by DeanFox · · Score: 2, Funny


    My Mother use to get away with this all the time when I was a kid. I'd come home from school and with a "look" she'd say, I know what happened today at school." After 5 minutes defending myself I'd usually find myself grounded. It took years before I figured it out.

    I doubt this same strategy will work with IBM. SCO says, here's a list of files. You know what you did wrong. Go to the developers, discuss it amongst yourselves and come back with your defense.

    It isn't going to work. IBM is all growed up.

    -[d]-

  13. Re:what no groklaw link? by BigCheese · · Score: 2, Funny

    How can you have a comment complaining about a comments lack of a link to Groklaw and not link to Groklaw??

    Better end this now. http://www.groklaw.net/

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    The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. - Edward R. Murrow
  14. Re:Two Words for IBM--Edit Distance by Rorgg · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the tags and everything? Cool!