[b]Darl McBride, SCO CEO, April 2005[/b]: "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem with it. What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights."
[b]Jack Messman, Novell CEO, in November 2004 on Sun's plans to open source Solaris[/b]: "We are going to be interested in seeing how they do that because we own Unix. We own the copyrights and the patents." [b]Scott McNealy, Sun CEO, in November 2004[/b]: "There were hundreds of encumbrances to open sourcing Solaris. Some of them we had to buy out, others we had to eliminate. We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code -- I couldn't say anything about that at the time, but now I can tell you that we paid them that license fee to expand our rights to the code." [b]Judge Dale Kimball, August 2007[/b]: "The 2003 Sun Agreement purports..."to amend and restate" a Software License and Distribution Agreement, signed March 17, 1994, between Sun and Novell. Id. Recitals. In the 1994 Sun Agreement, Sun obtained a license that included certain UNIX System V technology. The 2003 Sun Agreement re-licenses the SVRX technology licensed in the 1994 Sun Agreement and licenses additional SVRX technology to Sun. Id. Ex. 10....SCO did not contact Novell for approval before executing the 2003 Sun Agreement or the 2003 Microsoft Agreement. And Novell did not authorize either agreement." "...the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights." This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
