[Sussex] IBM vs Sco, IBM if forced to realse Source Code

[Steve Dobson]

Andrew

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:47:05PM +0000, Andrew Guard wrote:
> The latest news in is that they have won a court battle against the tech 
> giant IBM (International Business Machines) over the long running battle 
> regarding intellectual property dispute over the Linux computer 
> operating system. The courts have ordered IBM to make available around 2 
> Billion lines of code of internally developed applications to SCO.
> 
> http://news.techwhack.com/685/ibm-vs-sco-group/

SCO have not won a court battle as such.  In a dispute over discovery
material (SCO wanted access to CMVC and all programmers' notes).  They
get more code, and some programmer notes[1].  

The general reaction is that this is more routine than anything else [2].
In fact in the second link you can see the quote from Levy:
  "Ironically, this order forcing IBM to disclose more information to SCO
  may help IBM in its efforts to obtain summary judgment by removing any
  argument by SCO that information necessary for its case has been withheld
  -- a point Judge Wells seems to allude to in her order."

Steve

[1]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050119190326525

[2]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050121170716564