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Story: IBM acts to throw out SCO's Linux claims

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Its disgusting how lawyers can keep a case going despite there being no evidence.

SCO has failed to produce any evidence, the claims of hundreds of thousands of literally copied code that it proported originally to be the reason for its case have not materialised and it is obvious now that they never existed.

The entire case seems to be quite obviously something organised by 1) SCO (obviously), a fledgling dot-com company which should be out of business by now like all its no-business-plan (apart from endless suing) adversaries and 2) Microsoft, who have chucked a lot of money at this case and have an obvious ulterior motive (keeping uncertanty of Linux high) in keeping the case open whether or not it can be won.

I think its disgusting how chucking enough money at a case can keep it open no matter how obvious it is it should be straight away thrown out of court. The only people benefiting from this entire debacle are 1) Microsoft (keeping businesses scared of litigation through using Linux obviously makes a lot of them use Windows instead) and 2) some lawyers who must be making a lot of money out of such a high profile case lasting so long.

I guess the problem stems from the fact that so many politicians are old lawyers of some kind and therefore are quite happy to design laws which allow the almost indefinite prolonging of court cases and hence lawyers fees.

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