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Groklaw: SCO, Red Hat Update Judge on Legal Battles

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 11, 2004

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…”

Complete
Story

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…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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