IBM Motion to Limit SCO Claims Granted

Kalak writes "IBM's motion to limit SCO's claims to those that have specific version, file and line numbers has been granted, in part. At the end of last year, SCO made 294 allegations. IBM asked for dismissal of 198 of them due to lack of this information, 1 SCO withdrew, 1 IBM withdrew from the request, and 185 of them have been dismissed from the case. This leaves 107 of the charges are left to be addressed by means other than lack of specificity (such as public domain, BSD code, who owns it, etc.) As usual, Groklaw, has discussion, as well as the Order and an excellent chart of the history of alleged violations has been created as well."

Comments

I'd like to file a motion of my own

[Junior J. Junior III]

Move to call the trial "The SCO Monkey Trial".

Anyone want to second?

Re:I'd like to file a motion of my own

[beheaderaswp]

Second-

BUT....

Does that mean it will be followed up by "Intelligent Microsoftism"?

I'll pass.

Re:I'd like to file a motion of my own

[ClamIAm]

Well, with this news, it sounds like the scopes of the claims were changed. You could say SCO was trying to monkey with them, a trial which IBM will hopefully, in the end, pass.

Re:I'd like to file a motion of my own

[Junior J. Junior III]

Nah, it has already been proven that Microsoft doesn't design anything.

Geocities?

[daeg]

What genious linked to a Geocities site from a Slashdot posting? I mean... come on.

Re:IBM- doing the right thing?

[rts008]

Since I don't currently have mod points..... MOD THIS ONE INSIGHTFUL!!!

Okay, got that out of my system, but, really, if I had the MODPOWER of /., you would get some +insightful, and + some interesting with this post.

Someone please think of the mod points ( f*sk the children!)

Re:Not quite.

[Anonymous Coward]

They're afraid of water?

SCO vs. IBM, in IRC format

[SIGBUS]

* kitten is on the prowl
<cicada> Bzzz!
<kitten> *jumps* wtf?
<cicada> Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
* kitten walks toward cicada
<cicada> BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
<kitten> CHOMP! -chomp- -chomp- *gulp*
* cicada has left channel #meatspace (Ouch!)
<SIGBUS> Hey, that was a Quality Kill! Good kitty!
* kitten purrs
* kitten is on the prowl

Re:This isn't all that great...

[Anonymous Coward]

To have enough confidence to recommend SCO, he'd HAVE to be hung...

Re:IBM saw it for what it is.

[iainl]

I think the phrase you're looking for is:

"I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!"

yes?

Interesting possibility

[A nonymous Coward]

Suppose, when all is said and done, and IBM wins, they are awarded a chunk of change sufficient to bankrupt SCO. Wouldn't that mean that IBM would in fact end up owning SCO? And wouldn't they then have access to all SCO internal papers, such as Darl's personal email archives, memos, etc? In fact, unless Darl quit, he would then be working for IBM, and all his papers would become IBM property.

Wouldn't that be fun!

Re:this emascualtes SCO's case

[Anonymous Coward]

Glancing at "transfer^Winvestment" I thought you'd coined a new word: Winvestment. Underhand payments by MS to bolster their monopoly.

SCO's new logo

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.kinz.org/scologo.jpg

Re:A very thorough piece of work.

[poot_rootbeer]

Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus they would expect to be eventually told what they allegedly stole. It would be absurd for an officer to tell the accused that "you know what you stole so I'm not telling." Or, to simply hand the accused individual a catalog of Neiman Marcus' entire inventory and say "its in there somewhere, you figure it out."

Probably it was the $250 cookie recipe.