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IBM Subpoena to Canopy Group - SCO vs. IBM (my title)
GROKLAW ^

Posted on 09/09/2003 3:08:45 PM PDT by shadowman99

 


Here is IBM's Subpoena to Canopy Group

You can get it as a PDF here, thanks to a resourceful Utah person who went to the court and did all the legwork. Thank you so much, Frank.

I'll comment on it as I get a chance to read it. Meanwhile, feast your eyes.

UPDATE: The subpoena sets September 10th as the date for a deposition, at Snell & Wilmer's law offices in Salt Lake City, and instructs that these are the documents Canopy Group's representative, whoever they choose to get deposed on behalf of Canopy, must produce on that date, although an attached letter says they don't have to show up if they produce all the documents requested prior to the deposition date:

1. All documents concerning this lawsuit, plaintiff's claims or IBM's defenses or counterclaims.

2. All documents concerning any communications regarding this lawsuit, plaintiff's claims or IBM's defenses or counterclaims.

3. All documents concerning plaintiff's rights relating to UNIX or Linux.

4. All documents concerning any strategy, plan, effort, or action (actual or contemplated) to use or enforce (or to threaten to use or enforce) rights to UNIX or Linux.

5. All documents concerning any open-source license, including the GNU General Public License.

6. All documents concerning any lawsuit other than this lawsuit (actual or contemplated) involving plaintiff and relating to UNIX or Linux.

7. All documents concerning any agreement, understanding or communication with Microsoft, Sun, Computer Associates, Tarantella, AT&T, USL, HP or Novell, relating to UNIX or Linux.

8. All documents concerning plaintiff's efforts to license UNIX or Linux.

9. All documents concerning plaintiff's alleged evidence of UNIX in Linux.

10. All documents concerning plaintiff's alleged evidence of misconduct or breaches of duty by IBM.

11. All documents concerning plaintiff's UNIX or Linux business.

12. Documents sufficient to show the organizational structure or personnel of The Canopy Group.

13. All documents relating to the ownership of plaintiff.

14. All documents relating to purchases or sales of plaintiff's stock since January 1, 2003.

15. All documents in the possession, custody, or control of Ralph Yarrow, Jan Newman, Darcy Mott, Raymond J. Noorda, Lewena Noorda, Joyce Wiley, Mark Cusick, or Dan L. Baker relating to UNIX, Linux, or this lawsuit.

16. All documents provided to plaintiff by The Canopy Group or provided to The Canopy Group by plaintiff relating to UNIX, Linux, or this lawsuit.

17. All documents concerning the decision to commence or pursue this lawsuit or other lawsuits relating to plaintiff's alleged rights relating to UNIX or Linux.

18. All documents concerning the decision to suspend distribution of plaintiff's Linux products or code.

19. All documents concerning any analysis of any IBM conduct related to Unix or Linux.

20. All documents concerning any UNIX source code, derivative works, modification. or methods contributed to Linux or to the open source community by AT&T, USL, Novell, Tarantella, or plaintiff.

21. All documents concerning the relationship between plaintiff and The Canopy Group.

22. All documents concerning any statements, declaration, affidavit, analysis, assessment, or opinion rrelating to plaintiff's rights to UNIX or Linux.

23. All documents concerning any statement, affidavit, declaration, analysis, assessment, or opinion relating to this litigation.

24. All documents concerning the nature, calculation, and basis of any damages or injuries plaintiff claims in this matter.




© Copyright 2003 PJ.
Last update: 9/9/03; 2:53:12 PM.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: ibm; linux; microsoft; sco; unix
OK, and the best part, if you haven't already caught the punchline - SCO has until TOMORROW to satisfy this subpoena!!!

Darl and co. have less than 24 hour to produce this mountain of documents or else be found to have withheld evidence during the discovery phase.

The lesson here is you don't mess with Big Blue (or their army of lawyers)

1 posted on 09/09/2003 3:08:46 PM PDT by shadowman99
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To: rdb3
ping
2 posted on 09/09/2003 3:09:48 PM PDT by shadowman99
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To: John Robinson; B Knotts; stainlessbanner; TechJunkYard; ShadowAce; Knitebane; AppyPappy; jae471; ...
The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

3 posted on 09/09/2003 3:22:22 PM PDT by rdb3 (Which is more powerful: The story or the warrior?)
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To: shadowman99
Ouch.

Never poke an elephant in the butt.

4 posted on 09/09/2003 3:26:30 PM PDT by B Knotts
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To: shadowman99
Do they have to show the code in question?
5 posted on 09/09/2003 3:31:24 PM PDT by Salo
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To: shadowman99
Darl and co. have less than 24 hour to produce this mountain of documents or else be found to have withheld evidence during the discovery phase.

Actually the subpoena was served on August 26th according to an earlier GROKLAW article.

The depo is tomorrow.

6 posted on 09/09/2003 3:37:15 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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I think so. That's how I read #20.
7 posted on 09/09/2003 3:38:14 PM PDT by shadowman99
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"Actually the subpoena was served on August 26th according to an earlier GROKLAW article."

Correct, but the text of the subpoena has only just become available. I did an FR when the subpoena was originally served. The scope of what has been requested is huge when you consider Canopy and SCO have had only two weeks to assemble everything.

8 posted on 09/09/2003 3:48:57 PM PDT by shadowman99
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How do you get officially Penguified around here since I have dropped that trio of trolls I was calling a Ping list
this morning?
9 posted on 09/09/2003 4:32:18 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: shadowman99
Oh yeah, it's a lot of work. I'll bet Canopy didn't think they'd have anything to worry about... now this. Heheheheh.
10 posted on 09/09/2003 4:51:36 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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To: shadowman99
Told you so.
11 posted on 09/09/2003 4:54:22 PM PDT by Glenn (What were you thinking, Al?)
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To: Coral Snake
So you want to be in The Order of Ice? Know that many are called and few are chosen; of those chosen, even fewer are frozen.

You're on.


12 posted on 09/09/2003 4:56:39 PM PDT by rdb3 (Which is more powerful: The story or the warrior?)
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Thank you I'll Return the favor by Including you in The NEW
Coral Snake ping that I will be using when posting articles.
Don't worry, the trolls WON'T be there. They haven't even had the nerve to show up at any of my posts lately anyway. Glad to be back on the WINNING side in this fiaSCO.
13 posted on 09/09/2003 5:05:11 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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To: shadowman99
The scope of what has been requested is huge when you consider Canopy and SCO have had only two weeks to assemble everything.

Tough. Maybe they should have been getting their evidence ready instead of sending blackmail letters to people before they had even presented evidence before a court.

14 posted on 09/09/2003 7:54:46 PM PDT by gore3000 (Knowledge is the antidote to evolution.)
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Golden Eagle just showed up in one of my latest posts. Time to put the Penguin Ping there.
15 posted on 09/09/2003 9:17:10 PM PDT by Coral Snake (Biting commies, crooks, globalist traitors, islamofascists and any other type of Anti American)
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