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Judge Rules That IBM Did Not Destroy Evidence

Posted by Zonk on from the good-for-them dept.

UnknowingFool writes "From the latest in the SCO saga, Judge Wells ruled today that IBM did not destroy evidence as SCO claims. During discovery, SCO claims it found an IBM executive memo that ordered its programmers to delete source code, and so it filed a motion to prevent IBM from destroying more evidence. The actuality of the memo was less nefarious. An IBM executive wanted to ensure that the Linux developers were sandboxed from AIX/Dynix. So he ordered them to remove local copies of any AIX code from their workstations so that there would not be a hint of taint. The source code still existed in CVMC and was not touched. Since the source code was still in CMVC, Judge Wells ruled IBM did not destroy it. Incredulously, SCO's Mark James requested that IBM tell SCO how to obtain the information. IBM's Todd Shaughnessy responded that all during discovery (when IBM gave SCO a server with their CMVC database) SCO never once said that they were unable to find that information from CMVC. Judge Wells asked IBM to help SCO out in any way he could."

3 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No taint? by alphamugwump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cue Wheel of Time jokes about what drug "Taint" most closely resembles.

  2. Re:Who cares if IBM destroyed evidence by Darby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't she also see evidence of ghosts in the past?

    Oh man, I saw that show. I couldn't stop laughing at what a truly credible analyst she isn't. ;-)

  3. Re:Munch munch munch by Darby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dont worry with the search just go read groklaw.net; its all there

    Yeah, but Groklaw is all dry and factual. Not nearly as entertaining as reading about it here ;-)