SCO Claims IBM Destroyed Crucial Evidence

“Whine Inc” is at it again, this time with a tale of woe that is sure to totally tug at your heart strings. It seems that they believe that IBM allegedly destroyed crucial evidence in a case.

The SCO Group versus IBM lawsuit is growing ever more desperate–and ever more weird.

The latest twist: Buried in a new filing from SCO (nyse: SCO - news - people ) is a claim that International Business Machines (nyse: IBM - news - people ) destroyed evidence by ordering its programmers to delete copies of software code that could have helped SCO prove its case.

SCO alleges this happened in 2003, yet the company has never talked about it in public before.

However, an attorney for SCO says the code deletion is one reason why the Lindon, Utah, software maker has been unable to comply with a demand that it produce examples of allegedly stolen code…. Source: Forbes