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Article: Red Hat's Suit against SCO Put on Hold.(The SCO Group Inc.)
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- April 12, 2004
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The Delaware federal court where Red Hat filed suit against the SCO Group has stayed any litigation or discovery pending the outcome of SCO's $5 billion suit against IBM in Utah.
Judge Susan Robinson said that the IBM suit was all about whether Linux contains any misappropriated Unix source code and that it would be a "waste of judicial resources to have two district courts resolving the same issue, especially when the first filed suit in Utah involves the primary parties to the dispute."
In the same breath, Judge Robinson also denied SCO's motion to simply throw the Red Hat suit out as being groundless.
She agrees with Red Hat that it has a ...