That's gotta sting
I had a breakfast meeting with SCO Group CEO Darl McBride just a couple months ago. He seemed quite confidend that his case against IBM Corp. was going swimmingly.
Um...maybe not.
SCO, you may recall, is the Unix vendor that sued IBM three years ago for supposedly copying large chunks of SCO Unix source code and adding it to Linux, thus stealing SCO's intellectual property. It's a very serious charge, if true.
But for three years now, SCO has failed to present much in the way of specific evidence, despite the fact that McBride has claimed that IBM stole millions of lines of SCO code. If such is the case, it shouldn't be too difficult for SCO to come up with a few thousand specific lines, or maybe a few hundred, yes.
Well, a federal magistrate feels much the same, and this week she gave SCO a proper reaming.
"Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus they would expect to be eventually told what they allegedly stole."
"It would be absurd for an officer to tell the accused that 'you know what you stole I'm not telling'. Or to simply hand the accused individual a catalog of Neiman Marcus' entire inventory and say 'it's in there somewhere, you figure it out'."
Oh well...at least it was a good breakfast.