Groklaw: IBM Calls SCO's Bluff Over "Need" For 25 Additional Depositions

"As you know, SCO has filed a motion with the court, asking for permission to take 25 more depositions. IBM has now filed its Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion for Leave to Take Additional Depositions, and it's a breathtakingly bold chess move.

"SCO argued in particular that IBM's complex patent counterclaims made it essential that it have more depositions. I thought they kind of had a point. IBM maybe does too, and apparently it smells more attempted delay on SCO's part, and that has got to be a nauseating prospect. Anyway, if SCO's game is delay, delay, delay, what should IBM's counterthrust be?

"Exactly..."

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