Thursday, February 10, 2005

Judge Slams SCO -- 8:58 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

U.S. Federal Judge Dale Kimball had some very sharp words for SCO about their case versus IBM or, more appropriately, their lack thereof. Here are couple of juicy tidbits:

"Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the UNIX software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities. Further SCO, in its briefing, chose to cavalierly ignore IBM's claims that SCO could not create a disputed fact regarding whether it even owned the relevant copyrights.

"Nevertheless, despite the vast disparity between SCO's public accusations and its actual evidence -- or complete lack thereof -- and the resulting temptation to grant IBM's motion, the court has determined that it would be premature to grant summary judgment on IBM's Tenth Counterclaim."

In other words, "SCO, you sure talk a lot, but you haven't proven a thing." It's nice to see the legal system doing its job. Thanks Slashdot.

News for 02/10/2005

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