Maureen O'Gara, also known as the SCO Whore, writes a sleazy piece about SCO's motion to compel discovery from IBM, which was heard today by magistrate judge Wells.
Here is some of her deathless prose:
SCO's reaction was See "IBM has withheld at least hundreds of thousands of relevant documents – all relating to the contributions IBM has made to Linux – in disregard of two court orders that call for their production as well as IBM's own agreement to produce those documents."
It calls IBM lawyer Todd Shaughnessy a liar for swearing under oath back in April of last year that IBM had produced all the non- public materials related to Linux that it had that it could find.
SCO says, "It is now obvious that IBM's certification of compliance was false – the files of the software engineers in the LTC had not even been reviewed, let alone responsive non-privileged documents been produced."
SCO reminds Judge Wells that in March 2004 she ordered IBM "to provide documents and materials generated by and in possession of employees that have been and that are currently involved in the Linux project" and that in April 2005 she again explained to IBM that "prior orders make it clear that IBM is to provide ALL non-public Linux contribution information." (Wells capped and double-underscored the word ALL in her original order.)
Sounds bad for IBM, doesn't it?
Just one small problem: SCO lost at the hearing, big time. Judge Wells essentially told them they misunderstood her discovery order (the one Maureen is so enthusiastic about) and DENIED their motion to compel. And to add some frosting to the cake, she cut their request for additional depositions from 25 to 10.
I am sure that nothing is permanent except death and taxes, that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, and that O'Gara, SCO whore that she is, will write an article spinning this in SCO's favor by the end of next week.
Stay tuned.
Posted on October 7, 2005 11:13 PM