Moreover, when asked about the implications of newly formed CE Linux Forum, whose membership includes Sony, Matsushita (Panasonic) and other Japanese heavy weights, McBride said so far, he had not made any plans to speak to any of them.Compare that with what a SCO spokesman told EETimes on July 7:

A decision by eight consumer giants, most of them Japanese, to throw their support behind Linux has the chief executive officer of SCO Group on the move. Darl McBride, whose company recently launched a legal attack on Linux for alleged contract infringements, will go to Japan this week in an attempt to prove his point with some of the manufacturers that came together last week as the CE Linux Forum (CELF).

McBride, who is fluent in Japanese, will visit with several founding members to show them code samples in which the Linux open-source operating system allegedly damages SCO's Unix business, said an SCO spokesman. CELF's eight founders are Hitachi, Matsushita, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. "Members of that consortium are lining up in droves to view that source code," the spokesman said.