How will the court decide? [LWN.net]

How will the court decide?

Posted May 17, 2003 9:51 UTC (Sat) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
In reply to: How will the court decide? by tjc
Parent article: ...and if SCO is right...?

If a programmer can't tell for certain, what's the judge going to do?

Easy: innocent until proven otherwise.

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How will the court decide?

Posted May 17, 2003 20:48 UTC (Sat) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] (1 responses)

> Easy: innocent until proven otherwise.

I believe that's a criminal assertion. I don't think it applies to civil courts, does it?

How will the court decide?

Posted May 19, 2003 1:49 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

The standard in civil litigation is "the preponderance of the evidence".

That might be a *much* harder standard to meet in this case, requiring
*someone* to spend lots of money on lawyers to provide said evidence.

Oh, that's IBM. Never mind...