Comments on: Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM

Federal judge criticizes "astonishing" lack of evidence but denies Big Blue's request to defang SCO's claims.

[Bill Dautrive]

What happened to their claim of millions of lines of code that infringed?

When this mess started they claimed they had tons of evidence, yet they still have not showed any. Why the judge is allowing this farce to continue is beyond me. He should do the industry a favor and flush SCO into the chapter 11 toilet. This litigation is their last gasp, and in ~2 years they have shown no proof.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Bad news for the media too.

The media, including News.Com reported everything SCO said as if it were fact. They got quotes from "analysts" like Laura Didio and Rob Enderle who EXPLICITLY stated that SCO's case was a slam dunk. Enderle even went as far as calling the Linux community terrorists. And yet these discredited people are still actively employed in the industry giving their worthless opinions on other important subjects. The computer industry media has a lot to answer for today, but I am not going to hold my breath, I just hope IBM subpeonas CNet, Ziff, CRN and the whole lot to give testimony about the evidence their "analysts" and other reporters claimed to have seen that "proved" SCO's case.

[Earl Benser]

SCO is pure BS

There never was a case, only a dream, funded in part by MS, to
somehow keep SCO from total financial collapse. The approach
to screw up Linux was just a way to avoid that collapse. It was a
bogus dream in the beginning, and it's just as bogus now, as the
judge basically pointed out.

I can't really believe that a legitimate law firm is handling SCO's
case unless most of the legal fees have been paid up front.
Doing this one on a contingency basis would make the law firm
as stupid as SCO management,

End of this FiaSCO is in sight

SCO is not likely to survive as a company if this case falls apart. I can't see how they thought threatening every large company in the tech sector would actually improve their bottom line. But many of us will have a smile on our faces in the end when the Federal judge dismisses the case against IBM and SCO is forced into bankruptcy by the counter-suit that is sure to be filed.

Agreed.

Though I'm not a Linux user, my Mac uses Unix (or a version of it), I can't believe someone is trying to pull what SCO is. SCO's claims are purely false. Everyone can see it. They probably thought IBM would pay millions not to get involved in anything that would potentially tarnish their name. Guess they were wrong, eh?

[catchall]

Disagree

I would love to see the end of this, and have SCO handed their head. I fear, however, that there is still money to be made by the lawyers, and hence this will drag on and on, into the foreseeable future. Remember, the end of this case might just be the start of the next appeal...

Are we seeing a baby Enron?

Shouldn?t the SEC be looking into this? It would appear to me if a judge has a hard time believing that this is more than scheme to inflate SCO stock by making public statements that are miss leading. If this is the case SCO?s worries should be focused on a different legal front via the Enron/MCI examples. By misrepresenting their intellectual capital aren?t they are giving a false report of corporate value.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Why would they withhold evidence?

Because they DONT HAVE ANY, as the Linux community has been saying for almost TWO YEARS NOW. And isn't it convenient that SCO funded this lawsuit almost exclusively with Sun and Microsoft money? Oh and look, Microsoft just released a study claiming that their legal protection is better than the Linux community's. Hmm, I guess that is just a co-incidence, eh Judge Kimball?

[John Kuzak]

legal protection

http://www.analogstereo.com/saab_9-5_owners_manual.htm

[ray08]

"millions of lines of code..."

Remember a couple of years ago, Darl? Uh, could you please produce just one page (about 60 lines)?

[ray08]

Oh, I forgot!

SCO later changed the claim of millions of lines of code to "non-literal copying"! Hint: Darl, you don't have a patent on Unix! For simple people like you, Darl, that just means THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NON-LITERAL COPYING!

[System Tyrant]

SCO has done some good.

Ever sence SCO brought these charges the Linux community has started working harder on tracking thier code.

And when SCO goes belly up, hopefully one of the big linux supporters will buy up Unix and open source it.