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SCO keeps disputed code secret
News The judge originally placed no restrictions on public disclosure of the disputed code, and it's understood IBM's filing insisted that the code be revealed publicly. When the SCO Group finally lays its cards on the table in its upcoming lawsuit...
[December 16, 2003, 8:20]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback How about releasing file, version and line numbers of the disputed code. That surely can't be a trade secret, and its the least they can do to help the accused. Wasn't there some principle that in a copyright dispute the accused should be allowed...
[December 16, 2003, 14:59]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback I would like to see IBM do a hostile take over of SCO and the issue would be dead. I certainly hope that IBM will "anonymously" fix the code in question after the trial and post it to the organization.
[December 17, 2003, 22:15]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback It's not worrisome that SCO haven't revealed copyright infringements; they must do so to protect their intellectual property. IANAL but, as I understand it, if they haven't sought repair of the infringement, their case for damages is very weak.
[December 17, 2003, 16:36]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback Articles like these are amusing: SCO owns only copyrights, no trade secrets - stated in public court documents. Copyrighted material may be published without SCO loosing any of its existing rights. The order of confidentiality just granted by the...
[December 16, 2003, 15:58]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback Has the author of this report bothered to check the transcript of the hearing on Dec. Has the author studied the record of SCO's public statements on PR and in the court records? Ah! I thought not. Get to work!
[December 16, 2003, 18:49]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback This could prevent IBM from having the resources of the whole Open Source community dispute the alledge violations. When the first tidbits of code violation examples were originally made public a few months ago, The reaction of OS top experts...
[December 16, 2003, 19:08]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback It's their IP and that's why they don't want to reveal it, don't you think? Most of the books you read have copyright protection. People deliver work and want to eat, isn't that normal then? Do you guy's work for nothing?
[December 16, 2003, 20:34]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback What a load of BS! The code is out there, it is part of the open-source Linux Kernel, as published by SCO itself using the GPL. So all this is just more tactics from SCO. It is out in the public and cannot be used any longer for any IP case.
[December 17, 2003, 6:37]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback Some good points here - especially common sense tells you no one can claim something they haven't specified or ask for money for a product (IP if you will) which hasn't been described, defined, or specified.
[December 24, 2003, 1:11]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback A million lines of code shown only in a closed courtroom? Hmm.this trial is gonna last decades!
[December 17, 2003, 7:20]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback There is a great observation about the SCO IBM law suit at http://www.capt.cc According to the Greybeard: Using markets, media and courts to enforce their claims and demands, no one seems quite sure just what SCO is really up to — or why.
[December 17, 2003, 15:10]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback I read your article with continued amazement and horror that the courts should so rule. It seems to me that 'guilt' is being pre-supposed and that the court is reinforcing this view by its actions and also handicapping the defense in showing...
[December 17, 2003, 13:37]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback It's too bad SCO is full of crap. We might be inclined to believe them if they had acted in their own best interests in getting distribution of the code stopped but they haven't. It's all been a stock drumming scheme funded by microsoft to spread...
[December 16, 2003, 8:49]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback Typical! From what I've also read on Gartner (? both IBM and SCO wanted the private sessions. However, we will eventually see the code. Don't all court proceedings have to become public at some point?
[December 16, 2003, 9:40]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback Someone didn't get it. SCO is a dying rat who is trying to cling to life as a parasite by attempting to gain revenues from law suits rather than coming up with a product that they can sell outright. UNIX as an operating system is being beat by Linux.
[December 17, 2003, 22:54]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback I don't understand. If, as SCO claim, their code has been copied into Linux then how can any code they show in court "be secret"? Obviously, they are doing this to prevent any infringing code from being removed.
[December 16, 2003, 9:47]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback More proof of lazy journalism, when the writer bases his conclussions on a company's PR materials. If Mr. Colley wanted to do a bit more digging, he could head over to Groklaw.net, which has become the definitive website for examining the truth...
[December 16, 2003, 14:49]
Aussie ISP promises to keep disputed site offline
News Internet service provider ComCen has given temporary undertakings to the Federal Court in Sydney not to repost the Web site at the heart of a case over alleged copyright infringement allegations. Record company and ComCen lawyers met before Judge...
[October 28, 2003, 14:30]
Rambus starts licensing designs to use disputed memory
News Rambus, the memory designer that is suing manufacturers over their use of DDR memory, is now marketing technology that will help chipmakers adopt it. The company has begun to license designs for interfaces for DDR DRAM, or double data rate DRAM...
[May 10, 2004, 12:00]
