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    SCOs Case at an End?

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    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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    July 5, 2006
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      Since Day One of The SCO Groups lawsuit against IBM on the grounds that the corporate giant had stolen its Unix intellectual property for the betterment of Linux, SCOs opponents have shouted that there is nothing to the companys accusations.

      Now, more than three years since the fight began, lawyers think that the courts recent decision to dismiss many of SCOs claims has shown that SCOs enemies were right all along.

      What appears to be the real end of the case came on June 28. On that day, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells dismissed about two-thirds of SCOs claimed 294 examples of IBM contributing Unix code to Linux.

      Is there anything of substance left to SCOs case? The lawyers say no.

      Michael R. Graham, intellectual property attorney and partner with Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP, an IP-specialty firm based in Chicago, said, “Judge Wells order striking 198 claims against IBM brought by SCO is a clear example of SCO being hoisted by its own petard. Since SCO has since 2003 demanded that IBM produce specific examples of code, Judge Wells ruled that SCO may be held to the same standard. Although SCO produced 450,000 lines of code, claiming in more than 200 claims that IBM had infringed its methods and concepts in parts of the Linux code, it refused to identify with specificity what parts of the code contain or embody the allegedly infringing methods and concepts.

      “Faced with this refusal, IBM argued, and Judge Wells agreed, that SCO should be denied the ability to assert the claims for which it had not identified code. While this is an extreme sanction, it is based on the Courts determination that SCOs failure to provide specificity was willful, a not unreasonable holding in light of the fact that SCO and IBM have challenged the sufficiency of each others discovery responses since late 2003.”

      There is no question that the judge was fed up with SCOs refusal to show any specific evidence. Wells tore into the Lindon, Utah, company for not producing any specific evidence to prove its accusations, despite “given SCOs own public statements … it would appear that SCO had more than enough evidence to comply with the courts orders.”

      /zimages/3/28571.gifRead the full story on Linux-Watch.com: Staking the Vampire: SCOs Case Comes to an End?

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      Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
      I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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