SCO has been fighting for a long time. IBM is making a quick decision on UNIX copyrights.

Source: pconline

SCO and IBM's Unix intellectual property case moved another wave. SCO has asked the Salt Lake City local court to give more time to find more evidence. IBM tries its best to end the case earlier. On Wednesday, the dispute was pushed to a climax as the Court listened to four proposals. Among them, it is worth noting that SCO requires the court to give more time to find additional evidence. However, IBM requires the Court to adopt a "simple decision" (final decision)ProgramThe verdict does not infringe SCO's UNIX software intellectual property rights.

"On the surface, SCO demanded that the court not support IBM's simple decision request is normal," said allonn levy, a lawyer in San Jose, California. The Court often gives the plaintiff some time to obtain necessary evidence before making a summary decision. As a result, it is normal for the Court to postpone the hearing and summary plan, giving SCO the opportunity to obtain the evidence it deems necessary. Of course, if, as IBM said, the evidence to be found does not exist at all, the success of SCO is to delay the inevitable outcome of the ruling ."

In order to reject SCO's copyright requirements, IBM tit for tat. IBM lawyer David Marriott says SCO cannot explain which linuxCodeLine infringes SCO's Unix copyright, because the code was designed and added by IBM. "Why can't SCO provide such evidence. The answer is simple, but SCO cannot ."

An SCO official said, "the judge will decide in the future after hearing these well-thought-out facts ."

However, some analysts believe that the delay will only make the case more confusing. Stacey quandt, senior business analyst at Robert Frances group, said, "a simple decision will make it confusing and pass on the information that the SCO case has no value but is vague ."