"But when they take our proprietary code and, without our permission, put that into the open-source community, that is where we do have a major-league problem," McBride said.-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-07

"This case is about IBM not stepping up to what we feel are contract violations, which we've alleged in our complaint," he said.-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-07

"This case is not about the Linux community or us going after them. This is not about the open-source community or about UnitedLinux, of whom we are members and partners. A small part of our business is Linux-based," McBride said. "This case is and is only about IBM and the contractual violations that we are alleging IBM has made and that we are going to enforce."-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-07

"This is about moving our core operating system technologies forward. SCOsource is important to us as it will protect the intellectual property in the next iteration of our operating systems, which is key to our future, as is migrating the 4,000-plus applications written on SCO Unix and helping them migrate to the next-generation operating system," he said.-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-07

"Yesterday I had a request from a $28 billion company, an IBM customer, who sent us a request asking to see the AIX source code and the derivative work that came out of that. It is crystal clear to us here that certain parts of IBM are regularly reinforcing that we do have pretty strong ownership of the AIX code base," he said.-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-07

"Red Hat and its business partners work diligently to respect the valid intellectual property rights of others. We believe that the open-source community has provided and will continue to provide quality software that is well-suited for wide deployment throughout the enterprise," he said.-- Mark Webbink, 2003-03-07