| The bankruptcy court, in its infinite wisdom, allowed SCO to destroy all the
evidence. There is now nothing left for IBM to discover.
SCO was already
(years ago) granted what may have been the largest amount of discovery in
history. They got all the versions and changes for IBM's AIX operating system.
IBM literally gave SCO an entire computer system so they would have ready access
to this vast amount of information.
SCO fooled the judges with a laughable
"ladder theory" saying that somehow seeing all the minutia of AIX development
would tell them exactly where SCO owned code (actually owned by Novell) got into
Linux. IBM's lawyers said this was like SCO saying the direct route from New
York to Chicago was via China.
Of course there was not one shred relevant
information in the vast database IBM created and handed over.
If this were a
fair world then BS&F would eventually be forced to pay millions of dollars
in reparations for all the damage their seemingly endless stream of lies in
court has caused. Shouldn't lawyers at least get demerits or something for
telling so many big whopping lies in court?
If there is no negative
reinforcement then they will keep
on doing it and these bad habits will be
passed on to
other law firms as well.
Warning:
You're entering the US legal system. Please leave all notions of justice,
fairness, and morality
in the cloakroom. You can pick them up on your way out.
If you ever come out.
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Our job is to remind ourselves
that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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