“It’s time to analyze SCO’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to
IBM’s Motion to Compel Discovery, which we posted as text
yesterday. If I had to characterize it in a brief sentence or two,
the sentence would be that SCO tells the court, ‘How are we
supposed to know what code IBM misappropriated? It’s up to them to
prove our case for us. It’s not for us to hand over the code; it’s
up to them to show us every bit of code they ever donated to Linux.
Then, we’ll go over it and find whatever we can find. And anyway,
we’ve given them plenty of stuff just today, so who needs a motion
to compel? Let’s just forget the whole thing.’“In short, they don’t want to show the code this exact
minute.“They bad mouth IBM some more, tell a fib or two, by my
reckoning, and then sit down, saying the motion should be denied.
Let’s go over the document piece by piece…”