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Story: SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'

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It's silly of you to print SCO press releases, and especially silly to print extracts from their court filings, without looking at www.groklaw.net to see what's really going on. For example, in this filing, SCO is claiming that IBM has failed to comply with discovery, but then mentions things that IBM was never ordered to provide. This was clearly analyzed at the groklaw site, with cross-reference to previous, related court documents.

The other problem with uncritically printing what's found in court filings is that they are privileged; SCO cannot be sued for making false or misleading statements in such filings. They can seriously damage their own case, or alienate the judge, but they cannot be sued. This is discussed on groklaw, and also at Louis Mettler's site: lawlaw.com.

To publish this stuff so uncritically, without looking at the reference material made available at these sites, just makes you look like SCO's mouthpiece.

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