IBM ‘ambush’ accusation
p2pnet.net News:- IBM mainframe software vendor Compuware is suing IBM for antitrust violations claiming IBM used its source code without permission.
Now, “just three months before the software company’s piracy claim against the technology giant is to go to trial” Compuware says IBM is trying to “sandbag” it with new evidence, says an Associated Press story here.
IBM says the accusation is a “litigation tactic.”
Compuware says on August 11, IBM officials revealed they’d found the source code “in the exact locations that IBM swore under oath had been exhaustively searched,” says AP, adding:
” ‘Introducing this evidence more than two years after the court requested it and less than 90 days before the scheduled start of the trial is nothing but a last-ditch attempt to sandbag Compuware with additional burdens and delays,’ said Thomas M. Costello Jr., Compuware’s general counsel.”
