[IP] Magistrate throws out many of SCO's claims

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: July 2, 2006 11:47:03 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Magistrate throws out many of SCO's claims

A US magistrate has thrown out 182 of SCO's 294 claims against IBM.

	The suit ... accused IBM of donating SCO's Unix code to Linux but
	Wells ruled SCO had produced virtually no proof of the allegation.

	She said SCO had ''willfully failed to comply'' with court orders
	to show IBM which of millions of lines of code in Linux were
	supposedly misappropriated. SCO argued that was IBM's job.

	Wells likened SCO's stance to a security guard who accuses a
	shopper of stealing merchandise -- and demands the shopper show
	proof of the theft.

	''It would be absurd for an officer to tell the accused that 'you
	know what you stole; I'm not telling,''' Wells wrote in a 39-page
	decision signed Wednesday.

It goes on in that vein, with many nasty comments about SCO's case and
behavior.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Linux-Lawsuit.html


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