Code red for open source? (News.com)
Code red for open source? (News.com)
Posted May 2, 2003 23:27 UTC (Fri) by fandom (subscriber, #4028)Parent article: Code red for open source? (News.com)
If I don't understand usa movies wrong, when there a civil case like this there are
'depositions' if which lawyers from both sides get to question potential witnesses, so
that there are not taken by surprise by what they may say when they take the stand.
So, what difference could it make to state their case now? and if the case was really
any good, would it really make a difference? If they think their case can be 'laundererd'
they can't have that much confidence in winning themselves, can they?
Posted May 3, 2003 3:40 UTC (Sat)
by utidjian (guest, #444)
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The process is called "discovery". I do not know in which cases it applies or when it applies during the process. Basically the defense gets to see what the prosecution has as far as evidence goes. It does NOT mean that they get to view the briefs or notes or whatever of either side. Basically IBM already has the Linux source code... and presumably the SCO source code... so they already have the evidence that SCO is going to use. I think they are going to be doing some serious grepping and diffing... there is a lot of code. There are probably some very efficient methods for indexing it and searching for very long strings. -DU-...etc...
Posted May 10, 2003 3:14 UTC (Sat)
by Baylink (guest, #755)
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I knew in criminal cases, it was mostly the defendant who got discovery
rights, I'd assume something similar applies in the civil realm...
but I'm not a lawyer; I just play on on the net.
IANAL (always wanted to say that ;-))... but...Code red for open source? (News.com)
Hmmm... on a quick look, I find that (contrary to my perception)
you can do
discovery in a civil case.
Code red for open source? (News.com)