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IBM Says SCO Willfully Failed To Detail Evidence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the suspiciously-vague dept.

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. 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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  2. 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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    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.

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  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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.
  8. Re:Two Words for IBM--Edit Distance by Rorgg · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the tags and everything? Cool!