SCO subpoens back

Posted 12 Nov 2003 at 23:05 UTC by gilbou

SCO file subpoenas against Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Stewart Cohen and John Horsley.

SCO has just, within the past hour, announced that they have fired back against IBM's legal broadside, with one of their own, filing subpoenas against several of the biggest names in Linux. SCO filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stewart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta.

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[ http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/12/218245.shtml ]

perl to the rescue, posted 14 Nov 2003 at 03:03 UTC by idcmp » (Journeyer)

I'm surprised that SCO hasn't made an automatic subpoena generator using the MAINTAINERS file in the kernel source yet.

Machine-generated subpoenas, posted 14 Nov 2003 at 07:35 UTC by schoen » (Master)

The subpoenas filed by RIAA in its prelitigation investigations definitely appeared to have been generated by a mail merge process.

There is still no XML scheme for filing fully automated subpoenas on a machine-to-machine basis, but perhaps I shouldn't go giving people ideas for the next revision to the copyright law.

strange, posted 15 Nov 2003 at 11:57 UTC by gilbou » (Journeyer)

what is strange is that sco says ibm violated a contract between them and ibm and they do subpoen people that are never been part of this agreement and thus have no proper information about it: what could linus that he has never participated nor seen the contract between sco and ibm and that only ibm might know if they did violate it ? i feel like this move from sco is just to continue their fud so their share value doesn't drop too low since when ibm did subpoen them it started to go down. a fud move ?

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