News IBM asks court to say no to SCO claims

No evidence so therefore no case? So says IBM. This from ZDNet:

IBM has asked the court presiding over its Linux dispute with the SCO Group to issue a prompt ruling that Big Blue did not infringe on SCO's copyrights.

In a motion for summary judgment filed on Tuesday in US District Court in Salt Lake City, IBM argues that SCO has produced no evidence to back up its copyright claims and is unlikely to do so. As a result, IBM states, the copyright claims should be dumped from the case.

"Despite the fact that SCO has been claiming for months that IBM's Linux activities infringe SCO copyrights," the filing reads, "SCO still fails to adduce the basic evidence necessary to support its copyright assertions."

A SCO representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An IBM representative declined to comment beyond the text of the filings.

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