What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) [LWN.net]

What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)

Posted Jun 18, 2003 18:39 UTC (Wed) by zjohnr (guest, #12152)
In reply to: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) by JoeBuck
Parent article: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)

Forbes may be right-wing, but that doesn't make them de facto a "bad" source of business info. I found the Forbes article superficial, but still interesting.

What I'm wondering is if SCO understands what it is in when suing IBM. Especially about something which I believe IBM is VERY sensitive about -- intellectual property. When it comes to internal processes to validate a company's "right" to use a piece of code, IBM takes a back seat to no-one.

Unless SCO can prove that they've got IBM dead-to-rights on this, IBM will fight back and deluge SCO with paperwork. The trial could be very interesting ... in a tedious, drawn out, legalistic sort of way. ;-)

-irrational john

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What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)

Posted Oct 14, 2003 22:50 UTC (Tue) by dwandre (guest, #14296) [Link]

zjohnr has it right. I joined IBM while the suit was in progress and under the records retention rule every memo had to be preserved (and I was in the typewriter division). Every year the case lasted generated more mountains of documents. Looking at the IBM discovery request (see links from groklaw) it looks like SCO will need to double their workforce to produce the documents if they still exist. On the otherhand, Boies worked on the IBM defense so he knows what to expect. I just don't see how he expects to win, although he may not have agreed with the decision to sue IBM. He's got to put bread on the table, too.