SCO's case against IBM

CNet reports that the judge in SCO's lawsuit against IBM has loudly questioned the merits of SCO's case.

"Despite the vast disparity between SCO's public accusations and its actual evidence--or complete lack thereof--and the resulting temptation to grant IBM's motion, the court has determined that it would be premature to grant summary judgment," Kimball wrote Wednesday. "Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the Unix software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities."

SCO's continual blustering and amateurish attempts at bullying Linux customers has always stood in stark contrast to any actual documentation in support of its claims, and now even the judge in the case is calling them out. That does not bode well for SCO.