Groklaw: IBM's Motion Granted--1st Report from the Courthouse
Dec 21, 2005, 16:00 (3 Talkback[s])
"Don't imagine for a minute that this show is over. I've no
doubt SCO will file something on the 22nd, the drop-dead deadline
for listing any allegedly infringing code. If they've been holding
anything in an inner vest pocket, or if they have some theory they
think they can prove, or they stumbled on to some
'evidence'--remember the 2003 claimed 'mountain of evidence'?--it
pretty much has to be now that they show it, at least to the court
and to IBM. I expect claims as flamboyant as in the beginning. So
there will be plenty of more hearings, I think, and we'll be
needing coverage of those hearings, and to the extent that the
hearings involve specific code, we'll need specificity if we are
going to do research.
"It's going to be fun. We're finally getting into the real meat
of this case, now that a lot of the nonsense has been stripped
away..."
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