Well now we're getting closer to the truth

"SCO abandons any claim that IBM misappropriated its trade secrets, concedes that SCO has no evidence that IBM improperly disclosed System V code, and acknowledges that SCO's contract case is grounded solely on the proposition that IBM improperly disclosed portions of BM's own AIX or Dynix products, which SCO claims to be derivatives of Unix System V," according to IBM's compliance report on the Court's order from Dec 12. [theregister.com]

Ok, so SCO is buying more time and focussing on one of their two (both bogus) arguments.

Darl McBride isn't getting any more believable (or smart or sane) though. He claimed at a talk at Harvard last week that there "is roughly a million lines of code that tie into contributions that IBM has made and that's subject to litigation that is going on. We have basically supplied that." IBM pointed out in court that SCO actually only claims 3,700 lines in about 17 files.

If the case was being held in Australia, the judges ruling would be a sarcastic "Good onya!"

Oh, and while they removed some of their claims, they INCREASED their claimed damages by an additional 2 billion... makes sense.