Groklaw: SCO Files 2nd Motion Asking the Red Hat Judge for a Delay on Discovery

“SCO filed a Motion to Dismiss the action in its entirety, as
you know, and Red Hat filed its answering brief. But since we last
reported on this case, Red Hat initiated discovery. They asked SCO
for documents and for answers to some pointed questions. IBM is
forcing SCO into a corner in Utah, and Red Hat is forcefully and
aggressively trying to do the same in Delaware. You’ll see, I
think, that we haven’t been wasting our time telling the world the
details of this story. The big picture is that Red Hat is telling
SCO to prove their allegations with specificity. They also want all
their source code, and I’m sure you can figure out what they want
to do with it, when I tell you that they asked for the complete
Linux Kernel Personality source code, among the other products for
which they have requested source code.

“They also want to hear some details about the relationship
between Canopy and SCO, including any stock or intellectual
property transfers. They want SCO to ‘identify by title, version,
module(s) and line(s)’ what they think is misappropriated in any
way or in violation of any of its rights. They ask for the details
of Microsoft and Sun’s licensing arrangement with SCO…”

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