Let the buglike crushing of SCO commence!

[unixronin]

IBM has brought out the heavy guns against SCO.  In court Monday, IBM submitted a motion for summary judgement against SCO forbidding SCO to distribute products licensed under the GLP, including 783,000 lines of copyrighted IBM code which SCO copied from 16 different software packages, some of which SCO was still distributing via the Web as recently as August 4.  IBM's injunction, on the grounds that SCO violated the terms of the GPL, could provide the first major court challenge of the validity of the GPL, and with IBM's legal department behind it, it's likely to stand.  IBM's motion asserts that SCO has unlawfully exercised IBM's rights to its works and therefore infringed IBM's copyrights, and asks for a permanent injunction barring SCO from distributing Linux code copyrighted by IBM.

Groklaw says of the motion,

Man, this just isn't SCO's week.  IBM has just filed *another* Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, this one on its 8th Counterclaim, the one for copyright infringement.  No, silly, not IBM copying SCO.  It's where IBM says that SCO has literally copied more than 783,000 lines of code from 16 packages of IBM's copyrighted material.  They are asking for summary judgment as to liability and a permanent injunction.

Here's the lesson. You don't ever want IBM legally mad at you.

SCO and friends keep floating these rumors about SCO settling or being bought up.  I think IBM has other plans, like crushing SCO like a bug.

And it couldn't happen to a nicer company....

[Redacted memorandum in Support]

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Remember, IBM is the company that fought a US Department of Justice anti-trust action to a stand-still for 13 years. Ronald Reagan ordered that lawsuit ended (and a similar one against AT&T) when he became president in 1981.

Whether this is a good thing depends on your point of view. My Dad's reaction (he a CEO/Chairman of a software & services firm from 1954 to 1996) was, "the bastards won."

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, to fight evil, one must use another form of evil. (line slightly borrowed and paraphrased from a recent movie trailer)