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IBM Asks Court to Toss SCO's Entire Case
Lost+Found writes "After three and a half years of case proceedings, summary judgement motions have been submitted in the highly controversial SCO v. IBM case. SCOX shares took a loss of 18.75%, or $0.39, to close at $1.69. IBM shares rose 0.97%, a gain of $0.79, to close at $82.00. From the article: 'Both sides in SCO v. IBM have filed motions for summary judgment. To be precise, SCO has filed one for partial summary judgment and IBM has filed several motions for summary judgment, one for each of SCO's claims and two more for good measure on two of IBM's counterclaims. In other words, it is asking the court to throw out SCO's entire case, and to grant it judgment on two counterclaims without even going to trial on those two.' More motions for summary judgement from SCO against IBM counterclaims are currently being uncovered at Groklaw."
It would be very interesting to find out what the end bill is for both IBM and SCO for this monumental waste of time (unless you're a lawyer of course, then this has been one of the best account padders of all time). How much is SCO worth these days anyway, even if IBM were awarded the entire company, I assume it wouldn't come close to negating the cost?
whoa now... lets clear some things up here. ..& he ripped out your heart.. not spine.
"guy shoves his fist in through his enemy's sternum and rips out his spine"
The only guy who shoved his hand through your sternum was Kano,
SubZero ripped off your head with the spine attached. -I think this is what you meant.
I agree SCO wishes it could have a piece of IBM(ridiculous) I hope a public caning is given to the execs of SCO for even stepping up to IBM. how dare they
D,F,F,F,HP!
Kill your TV
They could have easliy bought SCO before going to court. That's what they would have done before settling.
IBM's confident that this case will help them in the long run, or they wouldn't be involved in the litigation at all.
There was a bunch of speculation before the pretrial hearings even started that IBM might buy SCO, liquidate the corporation, and open-source all the software assets, and be done with the whole mess. Winning in court proves things about the GPL, the open development of software, the honesty of IBM as a corporation, and a few other things that a buyout or a settlement never could.
Chicken isn't really a good analogy unless maybe between a Geo Metro full of clowns painted in bumblebee stripes with an air horn, a fart-can muffler, and a bicycle bell on the steering wheel, against a Freightliner truck.
12:50 - press return.
At the California Western School of Law in downtown San Diego, there is a framed woodcut in the main staircase. It is titled "The Lawsuit." It shows a cow. The plaintiff is pulling on the horns, the defendent is pulling on the tail, and a lawyer is milking it.