As part of a court order to provide IBM with evidence relating to SCO’s frivolous anti-Linux lawsuit, SCO sent IBM one million sheets of paper on which were printed the source-code that SCO alleges is being infringed upon. Of course, this is just a tactic to sabotage IBM’s defense, since it needs all that code in a machine-readable format.
“Knowing full well that IBM would need its source code in electronic form so that proper analyses–such as those SCO itself claims to have performed–could be conducted, SCO instead produced the source code on one million sheets of paper,” IBM said in the motion. “The only reason for SCO’s production of code on paper was, we believe, to stall the progress of these proceedings while giving the (false) impression of being forthcoming in its discovery responses.”
In response to IBM’s complaint, Stowell said, “If a company wants code, it’s the other party’s decision to provide that any way they feel like providing that.”
(via Dan Gillmor)