Posted on 06/28/2006 5:29:59 PM PDT by WL-law
Pings.
Suck it: you lose. As usual.
LOL, according to you and Jokelaw all the claims were going to be completely thrown out years ago. FYI the actual trial hasn't even started yet.
It's good to see that "Baghdad Bob" has found a new gig.
I support American Unix, not foreign Linux, so your Bagdad Bob comment is completely backwards.
Why is this think still going on?
Actually, 3/4 of SCO's "charges" never were even attempted to be substantiated in SCO's final disclosures to the court -- that means the "put up or shut up" time in the case.
IBM was not permitted to attack the merits of SCO's case until the final disclosures.
The final disclosures have now been submitted.
SCO's case is revealed as pathetic.
Yesterday, over 1/2 of what was left of SCO's case was thrown out, on evidentiary grounds.
The final remaining piece will be thrown out very soon, on substantive legal grounds (i.e., that even if what SCO alleges is true, SCO loses as a matter of law by order of the judge, and no trial is required) pursuant to IBM's soon-to-be-filed motion for summary judgment.
You, Golden Eagle, will have to eat crow -- there's nothing more to say.
Aside from the claims that SCO itself dropped, and the attempts at new claims already denied by the court, this is a huge number of their claims simply gone because SCO couldn't show what they said they had since the beginning.
As for the claims now on the table, do you remember a motion for summary judgement by IBM a while ago? The judged was sympathetic to it, but said it was too early and IBM is free to re-file (the order seemed to encourage IBM to do so) as soon as discovery is over -- which is soon.
You do realize that this is about an American company developing for software that it distributes, don't you?
FYI the "I" in IBM is for "International". Most of their employees and business are outside the US, and have been for years.
http://www.itworld.com/Career/1826/030722ibmmove/ (2003)
"With a majority of its revenue generated outside North America, IBM already has more than half its employees based in countries other than the U.S., Stunkard noted."
That's what happens when an American company gets big enough to dominate the worldwide industry. It's kind of hard to provide close support, consulting and sales around the globe if all of your employees are sitting in the US.
Just another example of cognitive dissonance, I guess.
IBM doesn't "dominate" at anything, except maybe the percentage of US employees that have been outsourced to foreign countries. They have a horrible habbit of threatening to withhold benefits from those who refuse to train their Asian replacements prior to layoff.
And when it does start it will deal with, at most, about a 10th of what was originally filed by SCO. Face it this is a huge loss for SCO which should have stuck to extorting smaller companies like auto-zone rather than IBM..
IBM has more employees in China and India than Microsoft does worldwide, yet Microsoft is much more profitable. Of course, you don't care, so long as you get free downloads.
I don't care because I don't use MS products. I refuse to provide any funding for abortion.
Trevor Neilson, a spokesman for the Gates foundation, said the money will not fund abortion because "we specifically give our grants in a way that they not be used to fund abortion services of any kind." Instead, he said, it will fund contraception, education and other women's needs.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0121-04.htm
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