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IBM's Memo in Opp. to SCO's Motion for Reconsideration - as text - Updated
Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 02:38 AM EST

Here's IBM's Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's Order of November 29, 2006 [PDF] as text. I can't believe we are still talking about this. I gather IBM feels the same way, because it opens like this:
Refusing to take "no" for an answer, SCO claims the Court did not really conduct a de novo review (as the Court stated it did) and demands reconsideration.

When SCO filed its sealed motion for reconsideration, asking Judge Kimball to reconsider his November 29th Order which upheld Magistrate Judge Wells' June 28, 2006 Order and dismissed SCO's original objections, and which tossed out 187 of SCO's items of allegedly misused materials, we wondered why they would keep bringing this up. SCO asked Judge Kimball to do a de novo review of Wells' order, and he did. And still SCO objects. Now we learn what IBM thinks it's about:

Under the guise of seeking "limited reconsideration", SCO seeks to undermine the rationale of the Court's decision as to the remaining 177 items (as to which its failings are no different) and thus improve SCO's position on its next appeal of this issue.

Oh, Lordy, will these dudes never call it a day?

Here's one nice thing about it. Extended litigation gives us the best opportunity to learn about the process, and heaven only knows we've seen just about every aspect of complex litigation in SCO's performance. And here's something new. IBM also attaches 11 cases as exhibits, and happily this time they clipped out the copyrighted bits from most of them, so I can post those for you. As an aid, I've provided links to the exhibits (all PDFs) when they are referenced in the Memorandum, so if you wish to take the time to check the court decisions, you can. If you do, you'll see how lawyers use cases to build strength into their position. I think you'll find it deepens your understanding of the process.

[ Update: There were 4 exhibits that still had copyrighted material included, so I got them for you from the court directly, so here are the four exhibits that were missing: Exhibit B, Exhibit C, Exhibit D, and Exhibit G. And now that you have all the exhibits, it will help you to read LII's very clear explanation of the process of finding on-point cases by doing legal research. You can be sure that IBM followed essentially this process and that they no doubt read many, many more cases than the 11 they finally chose. As you will see, you have to start somewhere, and most lawyers/paras will start with an encyclopedia of some sort, such as American Law Reports, which groups cases by topic, so you can find cases that are useful because the rulings deal with the same subject you have in your case. West has some free downloads, and to show you a little bit how it works, here's the trademark and tradenames download [PDF]. ALR has tons more information than that, of course, and when you find a case that looks promising from the description, you look it up in a book that has all the court decisions, which you can do too, if you happen to have a courthouse or a law school library near you or if you wish to pay for digital access. Then you check to make sure it is still good law (it might be a great ruling that got overturned on appeal, for example, so it isn't a great case after all), and if it is good, you have your first case. Then you hunt for more. So, there you are, a start in understanding what is a very complex area of law, legal research, which is my very favorite part.]

For example, if you take a look at Exhibit A [PDF], Monroe v. Myers, you'll notice some things that IBM doesn't quote in the memo, but which Judge Kimball is bound to notice: that it was a case where someone sought to get the court to reconsider a decision based on new experts' materials. Bingo.

The case also explains the grounds that justify a motion for reconsideration: an intervening change in the law, new evidence, or clear error/manifest injustice. A change in the law doesn't just mean someone wrote and passed a new law; rather, a court could issue a decision in another case that bears on the matter decided that now a party would like reconsidered. That counts as a change in the law also, because it changes case law. It would be appropriate to bring it to the attention of the court. If the judge misapprehended the facts or the law, then it is justified to bring to his or her attention the facts or the law you think were overlooked or misunderstood; but if a party just wants to advance new arguments or supporting facts that were available earlier, then it isn't appropriate. A motion for reconsideration is not a chance for a second bite at the apple, Exhibit A states. And Exhibit K emphasizes the point like this: "A motion for reconsideration 'is not a substitute for appeal.'... Rather the purpose ... is to 'ensure the finality of decisions and to prevent the practice of a losing party examining a decision and then plugging the gaps of a lost motion with additional matters.'" Obviously, IBM feels that is what is happening.

Here's what I think: IBM provided all the cases to comfort the judge, to give him a foundation for confidence that his decision was correct and will be upheld on appeal. I read the entire document as IBM saying to the judge: Don't let SCO intimidate you -- you are on solid ground, your order was correct, and so was Judge Wells', and here are the cases you need to prove it. Three of them, Exhibit B, Exhibit C and Exhibit D, are cases decided by Kimball himself, one stating that a party can't use "a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before" and two others standing for the rule that if a party could have made a diligent effort to discover materials it could have used but just didn't, that doesn't constitute "new evidence" usable in a motion for reconsideration. For sure, he knows those three stood up just fine. So IBM is essentially reminding him that he's decided cases that are like this one already. Unfortunately Exhibits C and D have all the copyrighted material still attached, so I can't provide them. If I have time, I'll try to get them from Pacer later. [Updated: see above. I have them.]

All the cases are offered to demonstrate that a disagreement with a court's decision isn't enough to get the court to alter, or even to properly reconsider, its decision. You can't use a motion for reconsideration to reargue matters the court already considered and rejected. You need new evidence, something you couldn't have offered before because it wasn't available before. Here, SCO has asked to do more discovery on the grounds that it could probably find some evidence if discovery is reopened; that in itself, IBM points out, proves that SCO's request for reconsideration doesn't meet the requirement. If SCO had new evidence, it wouldn't need to do more discovery, would it?

As for its assertion that Judge Wells failed to consider certain expert reports that were filed after her order, IBM points out that SCO never asked her to wait for them or to consider them -- they didn't present them except for a few excerpts, in connection with her order. SCO never attached the reports to any motion in connection with this matter, even though all the initial reports were available prior to her order. Further, SCO could have attached declarations from all the experts with its memo in opposition to IBM's motion, but it didn't. It did attach one from Marc Rochkind, and he claims to have been the principal author of SCO's final list of allegedly misused material, so that in itself shows the experts' thoughts and findings are not new evidence but material that was available to SCO. It just didn't use it, and that means it waived using it. No one "overlooked" it -- SCO elected not to use it.

Even if SCO won every argument, though, IBM points out the bottom line: SCO still has not provided IBM with the missing coordinates, and that is the basis for the original ruling. None of the experts' reports provides that specificity. And that is what the ruling was about. Nothing has changed. IBM says this is just about SCO saying the Court was wrong:

Moreover, merely asserting that if the Court were to look again it would find otherwise says nothing more than that the Court was wrong in the first place and should change its mind. That is not true, and it is not in any case an adequate basis for reconsideration. Yet again, a party cannot "use a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before."

************************

Alan L. Sullivan (3152)
Todd M. Shaughnessy (6651)
Amy F. Sorenson (8947)
[address, phone, fax]

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP
Evan R. Chesler (admitted pro hac vice)
David R. Marriott (7572)
[address, phone, fax]

Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff
International Business Machines Corporation

____________________________

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH

____________________________

THE SCO GROUP, INC.

Plaintiff/Counterclaim-Defendant,

v.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES CORPORATION,

Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff.

______________________

IBM'S MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION
TO SCO'S MOTION FOR
RECONSIDERATION OF THE COURT'S
ORDER OF NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Civil No. 2:03CV0294 DAK
Honorable Dale A. Kimball
Magistrate Judge Brooke C.
Wells

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e), defendant/counterclaim-plaintiff International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") respectfully submits this memorandum in opposition to the motion of The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") for reconsideration of the Court's November 29, 2006 Order (the "Order").

Preliminary Statement

Following careful review of the record, this Court affirmed Magistrate Judge Wells' ruling that SCO may not proceed as to items of allegedly misused material not properly identified in its Final Disclosures. Refusing to take "no" for an answer, SCO claims the Court did not really conduct a de novo review (as the Court stated it did) and demands reconsideration. SCO, however, provides no grounds for such a motion. Instead, SCO plays for the Court a mix of the same arguments that this Court reviewed de novo and rejected, and arguments SCO never before asserted and thus waived. SCO's motion comes nowhere close to meeting the high standard for reconsideration and should therefore be denied.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not recognize a motion for reconsideration. For that reason, motions for reconsideration are generally treated as a Rule 59(e) motion to alter or amend the judgment. Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e). An "extreme remedy to be granted in rare circumstances", Rule 59(e) may be deployed only to "correct manifest errors of law or introduce new evidence." Monroe v. Myers, No. 05-00351, 2006 WL 2699029, at *1 (D. Colo. Sept. 19, 2006) (Ex. A); see Phelps v. Hamilton, 122 F.3d 1309, 1324 (10th Cir. 1997). "A party should not use a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before." Whitmer v. World Fin. Network Nat'l Bank, No. 04-00567, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *3 (D. Utah October 6, 2006) (Kimball, J.) (citation and internal quotation

marks omitted) (Ex. B). Instead, the burden lies upon the moving party to show “(1) an intervening change in the controlling law; (2) the availability of new evidence; [or] (3) the need to correct clear error or prevent manifest injustice." Mantle Ranches, Inc. v. United States Park Serv., 950 F.Supp. 299, 300 (D. Colo. 1997). "[A] disagreement with the court's decision is not enough to warrant the court to amend, alter, or reconsider its decision." Whitmer, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *6.

SCO contends that the Court should "reconsider the Order to allow for consideration of new evidence not in the original record and to prevent manifest injustice." (Mot. at 2.) Specifically, SCO asserts three bases for reconsideration: (1) the Order should not have been entered before all expert reports were filed; (2) new evidence would likely be available through several additional depositions of IBM programmers; and (3) at a minimum, the Court should reconsider a limited number of the stricken items.

As is further discussed below, however, each of these arguments lacks merit. SCO fails to point to any new evidence in support of its request for reconsideration, let alone new evidence that was previously unavailable to it. The evidence that SCO suggests it might find if discovery were re-opened would not (even if found) undermine the Court's Order. Moreover, SCO comes nowhere close to showing that the Court's Order resulted in manifest injustice. Rather, it asserts arguments that it either already waived or that the Court rejected (after a de novo review conducted out of an abundance of caution) - neither of which is a valid basis for reconsideration. For the multiple, independent reasons set out in IBM's memorandum in opposition to SCO's objections, which we do not repeat here but incorporate by reference, the Order was correct. SCO's motion for reconsideration should therefore be denied.

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Argument

I. SCO'S ARGUMENT ABOUT EXPERT REPORTS LACKS MERIT.

SCO first argues that "the Order should not have been entered before all expert reports were filed". (Mem. at 4.) But there is no support for this assertion, and it does not in any case support a motion for reconsideration.

First, expert reports were not required for Magistrate Judge Wells to rule on IBM's motion or for this Court to review Judge Wells' order. No rule of law, no order of the Court and no understanding of the parties contemplated that the parties' expert reports would be "filed" in connection with IBM's motion. Moreover, excluding the excerpts attached to SCO's motion for reconsideration, none of the parties' expert reports has ever been filed in connection with IBM's motion or SCO's objections to the order granting that motion, despite the fact that (as SCO acknowledges in a footnote) it had served its initial reports prior to entry of Judge Wells' Order.

Second, SCO was free to submit a declaration from any of its experts with its opposition to IBM's motion, but it elected not to do so. In fact, SCO submitted a declaration from Mr. Rochkind, who claims to have been the principal author of SCO's Final Disclosures, in advance of oral argument before Judge Wells. Thus, the allegedly-overlooked expert reports are not new evidence that was previously unavailable to SCO. Caprin v. Simon Transp. Servs., No. 98-863, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25680, at *5 (D. Utah Mar. 12, 2001) (Kimball, J.) (denying motion for reconsideration where declarations, depositions and documents would have been available at the time of the original order had plaintiff made a diligent effort to discover them) (Ex. C). 1

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Third, neither Mr. Rochkind’s declaration nor any of the expert reports in this case (which SCO never made part of these proceedings) creates a basis for reconsideration of the Order. Like the Rochkind declaration, none of SCO's reports identifies the missing coordinates, the absence of which forms the core of the Court's ruling. Moreover, contrary to SCO's suggestion, IBM's experts have made perfectly clear that they were unable properly to evaluate SCO's claims based on SCO's failure specifically to identify them. (See 9/25/06 Decl. of Todd M. Shaughnessey, Ex. 181 ¶ 14; Ex. 213 ¶ 14; Ex. 234 ¶¶ 30, 64; Ex. 290 ¶¶ 71, 124.) It is undisputed that SCO has never provided IBM with the information that it requested and that the Court ordered SCO repeatedly to provide.

Fourth, SCO waived any argument that Judge Wells should delay her decision on IBM's motion until after expert discovery was complete by not raising the argument with her until oral argument. See Thomas v. Denny's, Inc., 111 F.3d 1506, 1510 n.5 (10th Cir. 1997) (holding that court would not consider issues raised for the first time in oral argument); Acker v. Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Ry. Co., 388 F. Supp. 2d 1299, 1302 n.2 (D. Kan. 2005) (holding that because "Plaintiffs did not raise this issue . . . in their original memorandum in support of their motion . . . [t]he court [would] not consider the argument.").

Fifth, SCO raised this argument in its objections to this Court (SCO Obj. Br. at 45), and the Court rejected it. A party may not "use a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or

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present evidence that should have been raised before.” Whitmer, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *3; MacArthur v. San Juan County, No. 00-584, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22792, at *23 (D. Utah December 12, 2000) (Kimball, J.) (Ex. D); Caprin, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25680, at *5.

II. SCO'S REQUEST TO REOPEN DISCOVERY IS UNTENABLE.

Next SCO argues that "new evidence would likely be available through several additional depositions of IBM programmers". (Mem. at 4.) Again, SCO is wrong.

First, an order may be subject to reconsideration only if there is new evidence that was unavailable at the time the order was decided - not speculation that a party might be able to find evidence to support its position if allowed to reopen discovery. See Belmont v. Assocs. Nat'l Bank (Delaware), 219 F. Supp. 2d 340, 346 (S.D.N.Y. 2002) (denying motion where plaintiff had "not offered any newly discovered evidence - he only [sought] to use discovery in hopes of finding further evidence"); see also Poddar v. State Bank of India, No. 98-1691, 2006 WL 2092469, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. July 26, 2006) ("[P]laintiffs' new and vague request for additional discovery is not a ground for reconsideration.") (Ex. E); Naiman v. New York Univ. Hosp. Ctr., No. 95-6469, 2005 WL 926904, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. April 21, 2005) ("Rich's request for additional discovery is not an appropriate basis for a motion for reconsideration.") (Ex. F). SCO's own argument demonstrates that there is no new evidence in support of SCO's position; if SCO had new evidence, it would not need to reopen discovery.

Second, the discovery SCO seeks was available to it previously, and SCO declined to pursue it. SCO deposed three of the four witnesses whose depositions it seeks to reopen (Messrs. Wright, Lindsley and Huizenga) and never noticed the deposition of the fourth witness (Mr. Vogel) even though it had identified him in its Interim Disclosures as having allegedly

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disclosed Dynix material to Linux long before the close of discovery. (See Doc. # 545, Items 003 & 004.) Thus, the evidence that SCO seeks is not "the type that could not have been discovered previously by due diligence". Belmont, 219 F. Supp. at 346. Because these additional depositions "were simply not pursued previously by" SCO, they cannot supply the basis for reconsideration as supposedly "new evidence". Id.; see also Caprin v. Simon Transp. Servs., 99 Fed. Appx. 150, 164 (10th Cir. 2004) (To present "new evidence", a party must show that it "made a diligent yet unsuccessful effort to discover the evidence."); Webber v. Mefford, 43 F.3d 1340, 1345 (10th Cir. 1994) (moving party must show that evidence is newly discovered or, if available before judgment, that counsel made diligent attempts to discover it).

Third, the evidence SCO claims it might discover from these depositions would not justify reconsideration of the Order. SCO says it would ask the witnesses "whether they know the coordinates in Dynix for the technology items they disclosed to the Linux community" and, if not, whether "they could explain how SCO knows or should know that information but they do not". (Mem. at 5.) However, the Order is based on much more than SCO's inability to provide Dynix coordinates; it is based also on SCO's inability to provide UNIX System V and Linux coordinates. (6/28/06 Order at 6.) These failings are by themselves sufficient to justify the Order. Moreover, as much as SCO ignores the fact, the Order is based in significant part on SCO's failure to disclose its allegations, which are best known to SCO and for which no discovery was required from IBM.

Fourth, SCO waived any argument that the Court should allow further discovery, which closed long ago without any objection from SCO. SCO did not raise the need to depose or redepose the four IBM programmers before Judge Wells. See Lewis v. State of Oklahoma Ex

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Rel. Board of Regents for Tulsa Community College, 42 Fed. Appx. 160, 2002 WL 1316810, at *6 (10th Cir. 2002) ("Because issues not raised before the magistrate judge are waived, the district court did not abuse its discretion in holding that Lewis had waived her timing argument.") (citations omitted) (Ex. G); Traylor v. Jenks, No. 05-1167, 2006 WL 2715009, at *1 (W.D. Okla. Sept. 21, 2006) ("[T]his argument . . . was not raised before the Magistrate Judge and is, therefore, deemed waived".) (Ex. H).2 Nor did SCO raise the argument in its objections to this Court. See U.S. v. Castillo-Garcia, 117 F.3d 1179, 1197 (10th Cir. 1997) ("[A]rguments raised for the first time in a motion for reconsideration are not properly before the court . . . . Thus, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied the government's motion to reconsider.") (citations omitted); Wendover City v. W. Wendover City, No. 03-523, 2006 WL 3469606, at *2 (D. Utah Nov. 30, 2006) (denying motion for reconsideration where "Defendants' arguments on this issue could have been, but were not, raised in prior briefing") (Ex. I).

Fifth, SCO's purported reason for requesting additional depositions is to provide support for arguments that it made previously in its objections and that the Court already rejected. Specifically, SCO contends that the depositions might show that IBM either knows the specifics of SCO's claims, such that IBM cannot claim prejudice, or IBM does not know them, in which case, says SCO, they could not reasonably be known by SCO. (SCO Mem. at 5.) SCO made

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this same argument in its objections, and the Court rejected it. (SCO Obj. Br. at 46-50.) Again, a party may not "use a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before." Whitmer, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *6; See MacArthur, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22792, at *23; Caprin, U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25680, at *5.

III. SCO'S ALTERNATIVE REQUEST FOR LIMITED RECONSIDERATION IS
EQUALLY FLAWED.

Finally, SCO argues that "at a minimum, the Court should reconsider a limited number of stricken items". (Mem. at 6-8.) SCO points to ten items, which it claims were not specifically mentioned by the Court. (Id at 6.) "SCO maintains that if the Court were to examine them individually, it would be satisfied that the identifying information provided by SCO is consistent with SCO's discovery obligations and sufficient to inform IBM as to the nature of the disclosure". (Id.) Like SCO's first two arguments, this argument fails.

First, contrary to SCO's contention, both Magistrate Judge Wells' Order and this Court have made clear that the Court examined all of the items of allegedly misused material at issue, including the ten items on which SCO now focuses. Magistrate Judge Wells' Order expressly states: "SCO submitted its alleged misappropriated materials on CD-ROM. The Court has reviewed all of the disputed items individually". (Order at 2 n.3.) Likewise, this Court expressly stated (in the Order) that it conducted a de novo review and that "the court considered carefully the memoranda and other materials submitted by the parties" - before and after taking SCO's objections under advisement. (Order at 1.) Thus, the premise of SCO's contention is mistaken.

Second, both Magistrate Judge Wells and this Court expressly found that SCO did not satisfy its discovery obligations or provide adequate information to IBM about its allegations. (11/29/06 Order at 4; 6/28/06 Order at 32.) SCO's motion does not - and could not - show

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otherwise. Moreover, merely asserting that if the Court were to look again it would find otherwise says nothing more than that the Court was wrong in the first place and should change its mind. That is not true, and it is not in any case an adequate basis for reconsideration. Yet again, a party cannot "use a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before." Whitmer, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *6; MacArthur, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22792, at *23; Caprin, U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25680, at *5.

Third, SCO's request for "limited" reconsideration is a Trojan Horse. Both Magistrate Judge Wells and this Court ruled that SCO may not proceed as to the 187 items at issue for reasons equally applicable to each of the 187 items. Specifically, the Court found that "SCO failed to comply with the court's previous discovery related Orders and Rule 26(e), that SCO acted willfully, that SCO's conduct has resulted in prejudice to IBM, and that this result - the inability of SCO to use the evidence at issue to prove its claims - should come as no surprise to SCO." (Order at 4.) Under the guise of seeking "limited reconsideration", SCO seeks to undermine the rationale of the Court's decision as to the remaining 177 items (as to which its failings are no different) and thus improve SCO's position on its next appeal of this issue. SCO's failings regarding the ten items it singles out on this motion are no different from the failings of the other items.

Fourth, SCO's argument that a number of the stricken Items are "akin" to some of the "negative know how" Items not stricken by the Court (Mem. at 6 n.2) fails because it could have been, but was not, previously raised in its briefing in support of its objections and is thus waived. See, e.g., Castillo-Garcia, 117 F.3d at 1197 ("[A]rguments raised for the first time in a motion for reconsideration are not properly before the court . . . . Thus, the district court did not abuse its

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discretion when it denied the government’s motion to reconsider.”) (citations omitted); Wendover, 2006 WL 3469606, at *2 (denying motion for reconsideration where "Defendants' arguments on this issue could have been, but were not, raised in prior briefing"). SCO had available Magistrate Judge Wells' Order sustaining some of the "negative know how" items and could have made this argument in its objections. Because SCO did not, this argument is waived. Even if this argument were not waived, it would have no merit because the three "negative know how" Items not stricken by Magistrate Judge Wells (Items 23, 43, 90) are not "akin" to the three Items for which SCO specifically seeks reconsideration (Items 3, 4, 15). Items 3, 4 and 15 do not involve disclosures of "negative know how". Each of these Items, by their terms, involves allegations of disclosures of Dynix/ptx methods and concepts and are thus like the other Items the Court did strike. Accordingly, SCO's argument, even if properly asserted, would fail.

Fifth, allowing SCO to proceed as to any one of the 187 items at issue in the Order would result in undue prejudice to IBM, as stated in IBM's memorandum in opposition to SCO's objections and as expressly found by the Court. Contrary to SCO's contention, the fact that the Court has deferred the trial date is immaterial. Allowing SCO to proceed as to any one of the 187 items (not to mention 10 of them) would require reopening fact discovery, redoing expert reports and depositions, and redoing summary judgment briefing. Significant delay and expense would result and even then IBM would be unable properly to prepare its defense because SCO still would not have disclosed its allegations.

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Conclusion

For the foregoing reasons, IBM respectfully requests that this Court deny SCO's motion for reconsideration.

DATED this 19th day of January, 2007.

SNELL & WILMER L.L.P.

/s/ Todd M. Shaughnessy
Alan L. Sullivan
Todd M. Shaughnessy
Amy F. Sorenson

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP
Evan R. Chesler
David R. Marriott

Of Counsel:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Alec S. Berman
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff
International Business Machines Corporation

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on the 19th day of January, 2007, a true and correct copy of the foregoing was electronically filed with the Clerk of the Court and delivered by CM/ECF system to the following:

Brent O. Hatch
Mark F. James
HATCH, JAMES & DODGE, P.C.
[address]

Stephen N. Zack
Mark J. Heise
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
[address]

/s/ Todd M. Shaughnessy

428057.1

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INDEX TO ADDENDA

Exhibit A: Monroe v. Myers, No. 05-00351, 2006 WL 2699029, at *1 (D. Colo. Sept. 19, 2006)

Exhibit B: Whitmer v. World Fin. Network Nat'l Bank, No. 04-00567, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73169, at *3 (D. Utah October 6, 2006) Exhibit C: Caprin v. Simon Transp. Servs., No. 98-863, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25680, at *5 (D. Utah Mar. 12, 2001)

Exhibit D: MacArthur v. San Juan County, No. 00-584, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22792, at *23 (D. Utah December 12, 2000) (Kimball, J.)

Exhibit E: Poddar v. State Bank of India, No. 98-1691, 2006 WL 2092469, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. July 26, 2006)

Exhibit F: Naiman v. New York Univ. Hosp. Ctr., No. 95-6469, 2005 WL 926904, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. April 21, 2005)

Exhibit G: Lewis v. State of Oklahoma Ex Rel. Board of Regents for Tulsa Community College, 42 Fed. Appx. 160, 2002 WL 1316810, at *6 (10th Cir. 2002)

Exhibit H: Traylor v. Jenks, No. 05-1167, 2006 WL 2715009, at *1 (W.D. Okla. Sept. 21, 2006)

Exhibit I: Wendover City v. W. Wendover City, No. 03-523, 2006 WL 3469606, at *2 (D. Utah Nov. 30, 2006)

Exhibit J: E.E.O.C. v. Body Firm Aerobics, Inc., No. 03-846, 2006 WL 1579608, at *3 (D. Utah June 1, 2006)

Exhibit K: McCormick v. City of Lawrence, Kan., No. 02-2135, 2005 WL 1606595, at *6 (D. Kan. July 8, 2005)


1 "[S]upporting facts that were available at the time of the original motion" cannot be offered up as "new" evidence for purposes of Rule 59(e). Servants of the Paraclete v. Doe, 204 F.3d 1005, 1012 (10th Cir. 2000); see also Brinkman v. Kansas Dep't of Corrs., 869 F. Supp. 902, 904 (D. Kan. 1994) (holding that evidence that could have been discovered and offered to the court if plaintiff were diligent is not newly discovered); Atl. States Legal Found. v. Karg Bros. Inc., 841 F. Supp. 51, 55-56 (N.D.N.Y. 1993) ("newly discovered evidence" must in fact be newly discovered, or could not have been discovered by due diligence); Waltman v. Int'l Paper Co., 875 F.2d 468, 473-74 (5th Cir. 1989) (holding that evidentiary materials available before party filed its opposition are not newly discovered evidence).

2 See also E.E.O.C. v. Body Firm Aerobics, Inc., No. 03-846, 2006 WL 1579608, at *3 (D. Utah June 1, 2006) (holding that because "[t]hat objection was not raised in Body Firm's . . . pleadings before [Magistrate] Judge Alba . . . . the court therefore will not consider Body Firm's new argument") (Ex. J); McCormick v. City of Lawrence, Kan., No. 02-2135, 2005 WL 1606595, at *6 (D. Kan. July 8, 2005) ("[P]laintiff should have brought this [] argument to the attention of the magistrate judge. Having failed to do so, the court will not consider this argument for the first time now.") (Ex. K)

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Authored by: ankylosaurus on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 02:55 AM EST
Please make links clickable.

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"we've seen just about every aspect of complex litigation in SCO's performance"
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 03:16 AM EST

we've seen just about every aspect of complex litigation in SCO's performance

Is this really true?

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IBM's Memo in Opp. to SCO's Motion for Reconsideration - as text
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 04:11 AM EST
With all of BSF's shenanigans, my wife (who is an attorney) says the biggest
winners here are all of the paralegals and clerks hired to support IBM's
filings, as this suit surely has them researching case law en mass.

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We know the answer to this one
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 06:10 AM EST

Oh, Lordy, will these dudes never call it a day?

Over the last 3 years we have learned the answer to this one. SCOX will never "call it a day", because the whole purpose of their strategy is to prolong the case as long as possible. That's what Microsoft paid them to do, and that's what they're doing. Given that goal, I have to say that BSF LLP is doing a brilliant job.

The litigation will end when SCOX ceases to exist. When that happens depends on whether Microsoft gives them more money. Without financial "life support", SCOX can't last a year. They're losing nearly $1 million per month and their net assets (assets minus liabilities) are about $8 million - ignoring any liability they may have to Novell.

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"manifest injustice"
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 06:30 AM EST
This would seem to be the only part that they would have any chance with.....if
they had a genuine case.

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Simple Answer
Authored by: sproggit on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 07:29 AM EST
To PJ's question :

"Oh, Lordy, will these dudes never call it a day?"

the most obvious response has to be in the negative - and for a very simple reason.

The SCO Group are going to lose this case.

Hold steady. Before anyone jumps to any conclusions, think about the ramifications of the judgement, not as an "end-game" move, but as a step on the way. If this were a game of chess, an IBM victory in this case is a bit like "check", but not "checkmate".

It's not checkmate, IMHO, because the real "game" at hand here was not SCOvsIBM, but an attempt by a "Pipe Fairy" to deal a mortal blow against the Free Software movement in general and against Linux in particular.

If we continue to think about this case as being the entirety of the "game" being played out before us, we run the risk of missing the bigger picture and of seeing strategies that are working at multiple levels. So, if this case is a piece to a puzzle, merely part of a larger strategy, does that fact alter potential outcomes in this legal dispute?

I believe it does.

The opponents to the Free Software movement are smart enough to realise that this case is lost. They have, therefore, accepted this fact and changed strategies.

In the early stages, the tactics were, "delay, delay, delay" in order to have as much time as possible to orchestrate a campaign of FUD. Then IBM and Novell started to rip that campaign to pieces with their legal filings, so we had a brief period in which we saw The SCO Group change tactics a few times. Were they speeding up, or were they slowing down?

Now we're into the concluding section of this particular skirmish. Ask yourself: what's the best possible outcome that an anti-FOSS campaigner could hope for?

I suspect that the answer would simply be for The SCO Group to file for bankruptcy on the eve of this case getting to trial. If that were to happen, Darl McBride could have, if not his day in court, then his sound-byte on the news: "We would have prevailed in this case had IBM not bullied us into the ground with their terrible motion practice!"

Meanwhile, with the case never coming to trial and never being settled in IBM's favour, the cloud will remain over the Free Software community and over Linux in particular, ready for some other patsy to pick up the baton and try and carry it a little further forward. In the background, we should anticipate that Darl and perhaps a few of his other directors and staff might initiate a new startup somewhere, perhaps using this precious mobile technology IP that they like to talk about ...

Put simply, this case getting to trial is bad news for SCO. They need to go bankrupt first...

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Not so much as a pretty please with....
Authored by: webster on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 12:03 PM EST
A Short One

1. Though short, it is sharp as a knife and shiny too. It sets forth the law,
including cites to J. Kimball's own decision three months ago with a copy
attached. Talk about making it easy for the judge!

2. Then this: "The evidence that SCO suggests it might find if discovery
were re-opened would not (even if found) undermine the Court's Order."
p.2. That's two layers of wrong --reopening discovery and not affecting the
material already ruled on. Duh, you can't reconsider what hasn't been
presented.

3. In "I. SCO'S ARGUMENT ABOUT EXPERT REPORTS LACKS MERIT" IBM says
it wasn't specific when presented, when considered with experts, when Wells
considered it, when you considered it, and when you consider it now again. SCO
has never given the coordinates. p. 3-5.

4. SCO's request to reopen discovery. This is a strong argument for IBM.
Indeed, they accuse SCO of a lack of due diligence since SCO noted one of the
now-proposed deposees during discovery but neglected to depose him. But here is
a little gem of shocking lucidity that puts the whole ball game in perspective:


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-------------"However, the Order is based on much more than SCO's inability
to provide Dynix coordinates; it is based also on SCO's inability to provide
UNIX System V and Linux coordinates. (6/28/06 Order at 6.) These failings are by
themselves sufficient to justify the Order. Moreover, as much as SCO ignores the
fact, the Order is based in significant part on SCO's failure to disclose its
allegations, which are best known to SCO and for which no discovery was required
from IBM."-------
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P. 6, near the bottom. SCO knows why we are here. All this 'sturm und drang'
about Dynix is a side-show. With this background it is very safe for the Court
not to reconsider.

5. IBM calls SCO's request for limited reconsideration of ten items not
specifically mentioned as a trojan horse since they were rejected for the same
reasons as the other items. They seek to undermine the rationale for the
striking of the other 177 items. They remind the court that striking this
evidence is a sanction for willfuly failing to specify/disclose. It has caused
them prejudice. Reopening discovery would cause them to have to redo everything
at great expense. (I.e. fact discovery, expert reports and depositions and
summary judgment briefing.)

6. The odds are IBM v SCO plus 17 points. Take IBM.

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did IBM miss a bet?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 12:36 PM EST
" if and only if SCO now complies with the 3 previous court orders, "


"we would not object to SCO being allowed to re-open one of the 187 items,
(of IBM's choosing), if SCO swears to the court it will not seek to re-open any
of the other 186, and if SCO acknowledges to the court that SCO has been acting
in bad faith continuously for 4 years."

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Universal exec - say goodbye to the old record co.
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 01:11 PM EST
For some times now the prevailing theory of Vista is that
MS is including DRM to appease Hollywood.

The Register
Universal exec - say goodbye to the old record co.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/20/kenswil_license_stuff/

Wonder how it feels to have a DRM locked up operating
system that is not wanted.

Great work Microsoft.

<For those of you who do not get the sarcasm read the
article>

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I don't see where IBM poins out the "heads I win tails you lose"
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 01:18 PM EST
aspect of the proposed questions.

While IBM do point out that the burden is on SCO but don't point out what I and
others thought would be a strong, amost fatal argument against SCO's motion.

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Every point SCO loses won't be available to Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 01:34 PM EST

I've decided IBM is not researching just SCO but also Microsoft. It will save
IBM lawyers a ton of time when it's Microsoft on the other side of the table. If
Microsoft tries to use the same strategy, IBM will have its research already
completed.




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IBM's Memo in Opp. to SCO's Motion for Reconsideration - as text - Updated
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 03:12 PM EST
Spectacularly nice example of excellent lawyering, as usual from IBM's side. This case is providing a lot of excellent examples of what to do and not to do in a lawsuit.

J

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Judge May Let Playground Rules Settle Lawyers' Squabble
Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 03:50 PM EST
Let's hope SCO & BSF don't hear about this. They may try to use it as a
tactic. ;-)


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Arbitration schedule?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 05:42 PM EST
When will arbitration procedings commence? Any idea on when they will wrap up?

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Talk about making it easy for the Judge!
Authored by: chiark on Monday, January 22 2007 @ 06:08 AM EST
Three of them, Exhibit B, Exhibit C and Exhibit D, are cases decided by Kimball himself, one stating that a party can't use "a motion for reconsideration to reargue the motion or present evidence that should have been raised before" and two others standing for the rule that if a party could have made a diligent effort to discover materials it could have used but just didn't, that doesn't constitute "new evidence" usable in a motion for reconsideration

Exacty what is left for the judge to do than to point at that paragraph and say, "read that"?

That's a beautiful bit of work: in the face of all the hand-wringing and positioning from SCO, it cuts through and gives absolute support to the position adopted. I'm not a lawyer, and was never really interested in law until groklaw, but that's an elegant response.

As an aside, I would not get into a debate with IBM's legal team ;-) : it might be fun for a while, but I'd be skinned alive.

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How not to win friends/influence people
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 22 2007 @ 01:38 PM EST
"SCO claims the Court did not really conduct a de novo review (as the Court
stated it did) and demands reconsideration."

The Judge said he did a de novo review, SCO/BSF said 'no you didn't'. They
appear to be telling the Judge he's a liar. Odd way to try and reach out to the
Court, isn't it? Or, are they just trying to anger the Court, hoping the Court
will make a mistake by handing SCO/BSF their backsides in a reply?
Would we expect the Court to respond to SCO's request with a well thought out
and lengthy reply - or something along the lines of "No" period?

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What next, an interlocutory appeal?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 23 2007 @ 12:31 AM EST
What is SCO likely to try next? An interlocutory appeal on this issue? Is
there any penalty for trying that? SCO is claiming that this motion is so
essential to their case that it's effectively dispositive, so they might be able
to get away with an interlocutory appeal.

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Judge Kimball cannot rule in SCO's favor
Authored by: GLJason on Tuesday, January 23 2007 @ 08:34 PM EST

As IBM points out, if SCO gets these ten items back in, that throws both Judge Wells's and Judge Kimball's rulings into question. If there is any startling new evidence that does have the missing information, Judge Kimball can just ask SCO "Why wasn't this evidence in the final disclosures?". I don't know of any new evidence that SCO has that they didn't have when the final disclosures were made. Expert opinions aren't evidence, they are opinions. What they write about may be considered evidence. For instance, if

If expert testimony was the key to finding the evidence, SCO should have done that PRIOR to the deadline for final disclosures. They brought their case nearly four years ago, they SHOULD have known what IBM was doing wrong before filing. They have had access to SVRX source code and Linux code since 2001. If they wished to object to "file-version-line" specificity, they should have done so at the first ruling on a motion to compel back in December 2003. At the very latest they should have asked Judge Wells for guidance when IBM informed them that the interim disclosures weren't good enough, that they required "file-version-line" information and that they would bring it up with the court if that level of specificity wasn't present in the final disclosures.

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