Some have perpetual licenses, others do not. They are perpetual as long as they honor the terms of their contract. When they break their contract, they are no longer perpetual. Some companies have been very honorable in their strict adherence to the terms of our contract. Others, as our complaint against IBM alleges, have not.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-04-28

We are finding SCO-owned code in their [Red Hat and SuSE] distributions.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-04-28

We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of our UNIX System V source code and Red Hat as an example. We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to address with many Linux distribution companies at some point.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-04-28

We're not talking about the Linux kernel that Linus and others have helped develop. We're talking about what's on the periphery of the Linux kernel.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-04-28

What he meant was that if SCO prevails in their lawsuit with IBM, companies like Red Hat and SuSE may need to revisit their distributions and remove any UNIX system code from their distributions and compensate SCO in some way for the software code that they benefited from by using our UNIX code.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-04-28