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Judge Calls SCO On Lack of Evidence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-it-is-judge-like-it-is dept.

Rob writes to mention a CBR article on Judge Wells' assessment that SCO just hasn't made its case against IBM in the well-known and long-lasting legal battle. The magistrate called the lack of evidence inexcusable. She further likened their claims to a shoplifter being handed a catalog for a store after being stopped, and being told 'what you took is in there somewhere, figure it out.' From the article: "In the view of the court it is almost like SCO sought to hide its case until the ninth inning in hopes of gaining an unfair advantage despite being repeatedly told to put 'all the evidence... on the table' ... given SCO's own public statements... it would appear that SCO had more than enough evidence to comply with the court's orders." Groklaw has coverage of the decision, and the complete text from the judge. Update: 06/30 15:14 GMT by Z : This story bears more than a passing resemblance to this one from Wednesday. Sorry about that.

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  1. Re:SCO's mistake by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck off, troll.

    Since nobody outside SCO except perhaps the MoGTroll, Didiot, and a few people who were paid to look at it, have seen it, I call bullshit - or should I say backinfullforce-shit.

    1. Both SCO and Linux can legally take anything they want from the BSD code base - so they would have the exact same comments, etc.
    2. The LKP module that SCO had to yank is a good indication that copying went from Linux to SCO Unix, and not vice versa;
    3. Header files? Sure, for things like POSIX, they WOULD be the exact same. No copyright infringement.
    4. Those "millions of lines of code" in Blepp's suitcase seem to have disappeared.
    Stock scam. That's all it ever was, after the extortion attempt failed.
  2. Shoplifting by corby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The shoplifting analogy isn't quite there.

    Actually, it's as if you walked out of Neiman Marcus, a security guard accused you of shoplifting, and then refused to tell you what you shoplifted.

    Then, the guard pulls over his buddy, respected Yankee Group Laura Didio. She looks in your bag, then looks at the Neiman Marcus catalog, and announces on national media that you have stolen something from Neimann Marcus but she won't say what it is.

    Three years later, during trial, the guard is still unable to explain what you stole from the store.