Judge Deals Blow to SCO in $5 Billion Linux Lawsuit

Hmm, one might argue that SCO just got schooled. The action of the case described below further indicates that SCO is dying a slow death and is in denial about it.

The holidays came early for devotees of the Linux operating system when a judge last week threw out the majority of claims brought against IBM by the SCO Group in its $5 billion intellectual property rights case.

The lawsuit, filed by the Utah-based firm in 2003 and scheduled to go to trial next year, alleges that IBM “misappropriated confidential and proprietary information” and used pilfered
Unix code to help build Linux.

Magistrate Brooke C. Wells of U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Wednesday dismissed 182 of SCO’s 294 claims in a 39-page ruling that criticized the company for failing to comply with repeated requests to provide IBM and the court with specific details about which lines of code were stolen… Source: NewsFactorNetwork