Judge Rules That IBM Did Not Destroy Evidence 163
UnknowingFool writes "From the latest in the SCO saga, Judge Wells ruled today that IBM did not destroy evidence as SCO claims. During discovery, SCO claims it found an IBM executive memo that ordered its programmers to delete source code, and so it filed a motion to prevent IBM from destroying more evidence. The actuality of the memo was less nefarious. An IBM executive wanted to ensure that the Linux developers were sandboxed from AIX/Dynix. So he ordered them to remove local copies of any AIX code from their workstations so that there would not be a hint of taint. The source code still existed in CVMC and was not touched. Since the source code was still in CMVC, Judge Wells ruled IBM did not destroy it. Incredulously, SCO's Mark James requested that IBM tell SCO how to obtain the information. IBM's Todd Shaughnessy responded that all during discovery (when IBM gave SCO a server with their CMVC database) SCO never once said that they were unable to find that information from CMVC. Judge Wells asked IBM to help SCO out in any way he could."
D'Oh! (Score:4, Funny)
Could anything happen at this point that even might help SCO? I really hope we get to move to the summary executions^Hjudgment phase here pretty soon...
Re:D'Oh! (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, we'd love to help SCO out.... (Score:5, Funny)
Legalese Translation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Nuclear war is also promising. I think Iran and North Korea are as desperate to seeing this case end as we are.
Barring that, the Sun will turn into a red giant in about 5 billion years, and that will certainly end things.
Or SCO could run out of stalling tactics, but seriously, that seems far-fetched.
Re:Who cares if IBM destroyed evidence (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be glad when this is all over (Score:4, Funny)
Re:D'Oh! (Score:5, Funny)
Of course! Just as soon as they figure out the second step they'll be set.
Two Questions: (Score:3, Funny)
Where will the party be held?
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Wait... did I just post in this thread? Shit! Sorry, buddy!
Dog ate my homework, or, Wells takes SCO to school (Score:3, Funny)
Professor Wells: *sigh* Okay, fine. One extension, but don't make a habit of this.
Freshman SCO: Sure, sure. Thanks a lot. Oh, by the way, what server is the assignment on?
Fastest debarrment ever (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe this is why I'll never go to law school, but I'd probably respond to that at that point by placing a loaded gun on the table and tell them "Kill yourself. Now."
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Considering that they have collected a 30 million dollar paycheck for doing it, I would dare say that dancing around naked to the song Don't Worry Be Happy while wearing a jello toupee would qualify as "acting rationally".
I would assume that the contract between SCO and their lawyers pretty much requires them to continue the case at least far enough to get a ruling. A legal obligation to finish it, lest that paycheck be forfit. My guess is that once they get a ruling, they won't fight on with an appeal without pay. Of course it's quite possibile that someone might arranging to fund an appeal just to drag this mess out.
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Re:The Proverbial Wool Over Everyone's Eyes (Score:2, Funny)
I am sorry to inform you that the debt owed to you, a total of
0,02$,
cannot be payed.
This is due to some unforseen circumstances beyond our control: it turned out that other claims have been judged higher priority*.
Kind regards,
trustee SCO.
* I am sure you can understand that we had to pay the gentlemen also known as 'Darl' first.
Re:When will it End?!? (Score:3, Funny)
I suspect you'll get the obvious answer from the lawyers: when the money runs out.