— SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, replying to IBM’s motion to compel discovery. SCO had supplied printed pages of code to IBM instead of electronic versions
SCO has asked the count to force IBM to turn over all 40 million lines of AIX – while the judge has not ruled on this yet, let’s pretend they are granted this request.
Is it OK for IBM to fax over the code – in 8pt type – so it’s virtually impossible to even OCR? Hey, it might be the way IBM feels like providing it…
This lawsuit has been a joke from Day One, but it’s hurting Linux and OSS.
Statements like this one by SCO execs show the company’s true colors: They don’t care what happens to Linux and so on. It’s just “show me the money!”.
It also demonstrates that SCO has not cards up its sleeves: Unfortunately, the wheels of justice grind slowly. The court date is current set for April 2005.
That is not a typo. Over a year from now…
Potentially, another year+ of FUD and loathing from Lindon, Utah.