On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 11:51:44 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>>> I'm more inclined to think that these are different parts of the same
>>> company who don't (didn't) know about the other part.
>>
>> Another strong possibility. Happens all the time.
>
> Not this time. The reports are quoting the CEO from interviews and
> official letters. They are reporting the creation of a new business
> unit ("SCOsource") to handle company intellectual property. The purpose
> is obviously not to get good publicity.
>
> http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1573491 quotes the CEO:
>
> "SCO is [...] identifying where intellectual property violations
> have taken place, and helping resolve those violations"
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981569.html?tag=fd_top quotes the CEO:
>
> "To us, it's not an issue of: Is Linux violating (SCO intellectual
> property)? It's an issue of: Is anybody violating it?"
>
> And it quotes the CEO noting the presence of their code in (Mac) OS/X.
> We can hope that he doesn't know something about the secret agreements
> over that code which we don't,
Which secret agreements? The license is public, and it doesn't leave
any space for secret agreements.
> and is just an ignorant CEO speaking too soon, and that his new
> lawyer will educate him about the code's status.
I suspect that this is the case.
Could we now please take this off -questions? Continue on advocacy@
if you want.
Greg
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