Groklaw: SCO, Red Hat Update Judge on Legal Battles

SCO's June 17 Letter to the Judge in Red Hat

"We now have from the court in Delaware, at last, the letters each side has sent to Judge Sue Robinson, listed on Pacer. To begin, here is SCO's letter of June 17th as text. These are paper documents, so I'll try to get a PDF done later, but we are swamped with court documents. It appears that SCO is very, very worried that IBM will win their Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and they are sending the courts both in Utah and Delaware a great deal of verbiage to try to forestall that possibility.

"Here SCO faces the unhappy task of explaining to this judge why it told her that the IBM case would settle most if not all of the copyright issues in the Red Hat case, and then told other courts it wouldn't. Now they wish her to clarify her thoughts and realize they didn't mean *all* issues..."

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Red Hat's Letter to the Judge: SCO Will Say Anything to Delay Resolution of Their Copyright Claims So They Can FUD

"Here is Red Hat's July 6th letter to Judge Sue Robinson, which answers SCO's letter of June 17. It's a very strong appeal to her to lift the stay. You could say they are trying to hit her with a cluestick and make sure she realizes that SCO is cynically saying different things in different courts. For that matter, they've told her inconsistent things, Red Hat points out.

"All SCO is really after here is delay, they tell her, to put off as long as possible any resolution of its copyright allegations, so it can continue to spread FUD..."

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Related Stories:

• eWeek: AutoZone Borrows SCO's Reasoning to Ask for a Stay(Jun 23, 2004)
• CNET News: Red Hat Adds Legal Firepower(May 18, 2004)
• Groklaw: SCO's Corrected Motion to Dismiss or Stay(Apr 28, 2004)
• CNET News: Red Hat Seeks to Reawaken SCO Case(Apr 21, 2004)
• Groklaw: The Red Hat Order(Apr 12, 2004)