To large degree justice did work out and I agree people deserve their day in court. It's just ridiculous that such a baseless case dragged on for so long: (http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2003111102212930 ) 0 No. Information Requested by IBM SCOâs Supplemental Response Deficiencies in SCOâs Supplemental Response 1 Interrogatory No. 1 seeks specific identification of all alleged trade secrets and confidential or proprietary information that SCO alleges IBM misappropriated or misused. This information is requested by product, file and line of code. SCO reiterates its references to âUNIX software design methodsâ and âtechnical UNIX categoriesâ (Exh. A at 3.)
SCO lists 591 files, by source file heading, contained in unidentified releases of the Linux 2.4 and/or Linux 2.5 kernels. It states merely that they include or may include âinformation (including methods) that IBM was required to maintain as confidential or proprietary pursuant to contract with SCO and/or which constitute trade secrets misused by IBMâ. (Id. at 3â6, 7â 19.) SCO fails to identify a single Unix file or line of code. SCOâs references to âdesign methodsâ and âtechnical Unix categoriesâ are so vague as to be essentially meaningless. In fact, SCO does not identify any of the methods it purports to own; it merely describes the categories in which they supposedly fall. SCOâs list of files is neither responsive nor identified with meaningful particularity, as SCO fails to identify the precise releases of the Linux kernel in which these files are found or the precise lines of code at which the alleged methods are found and SCO acknowledges that it had rights to only some of the code in these files --- Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:18:11PM -0700, Randall > Shimizu wrote: > > I am amazed that this lawsuit has dragged on so > long. > > It was clear from the very beginning that SCO was > > unwilling and unable to produce tangible evidence > to > > back up it's claims. > > > > I hope that SCO is forced to compensate IBM for > this > > nonsensical lawsuit. > > > > Checkout (http://www.groklaw.net/ ). For complete > > info... > > > > Everybody deserves and gets his day in court. We all > tend to focus on > the obvious abuses of that process (like SCO), but I > think in the end it > sorts out. Judges are loath to dismiss without > giving plaintiffs every > possible chance to make their case, but they're not > stupid. > > I'm convinced that most lawyers (and judges come > from the lawyer pool) > start out in their training with at least a little > part of them being > star-struck by the love of Justice. Very few (we'll > call them the "Tom > Hagens") start out to use the law to rip people off. > > Anyway, this case seems to have worked out. > > -- > Lan Barnes > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist > Tcl/Tk Enthusiast > > Invading and occupying Iraq after 9/11 made about as > much sense as if > after Pearl Harbor, the United States had bombed > Brazil. > - Mark Shields > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
