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SCO Files Motion to Seal Appendix to its Response and Motion to Shorten Notice

By Pamela Jones et al.

My, they stay up late in Utah. Here are some more filings in the SCO bankruptcy posted late yesterday and some today. SCO has filed two motions, one a Motion to Seal Debtors' Appendix to Their Response to Motions to Dismiss or Convert [PDF], because 55 pages and 118 footnotes isn't nearly enough. And the second motion is a Motion to Shorten Notice [PDF] Regarding Debtors' Motion to File Under Seal Debtors' Appendix. The rest are affidavits of service and various bookkeeping things of no consequence, so I'll show you the docket entries on those.

What does it mean? If you recall, the Response referenced an Appendix, but it wasn't filed simultaneously. The response was filed on June 5; the Appendix was referenced but still isn't filed, not even sealed. That's unusual indeed, particularly since SCO's Motion to Seal states they were both filed "contemporaneously". Instead we have a motion to seal it, without apparently filing it yet at all, filed on June 8. SCO says it wishes to protect *IBM*, because the appendix includes some confidential IBM memos. Old-timers here will recall how valiantly SCO has always scrupulously fought to keep IBM confidential memos from the public. Hardy har.

OK. So what is it really about?

Full post as published by Groklaw on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).