I can't answer for IBM. There is strong contractual language that allows us on breach - as we have alleged in the lawsuit - the right to revoke the AIX license.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-16

I have reviewed the agreements we have with SuSE. I would not characterise them in any form whatsoever as providing SuSE with any rights to our Unix intellectual property. They are dead wrong on that issue.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-16

Q: What you are saying then is: if there is Unix code put into Linux by IBM, and SuSE is using Linux, they would therefore be liable by default?

Yes.

Q: Would that also be true of Red Hat?

The same issue in terms of inappropriate intellectual property in Linux being distributed by any commercial distribution would provide them with the same issue. So Red Hat, SuSE or any other commercial distribution would have equal liability.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-16

They really did not make much of a response. So we are moving forward now and we expect to speedily get into the discovery process and be able to start coming forward in a court setting with the evidence related to the evidence in our lawsuit.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-16

We announced with our first-quarter earnings that our financial situation had dramatically improved. I will leave it at that, but we expect very shortly to be announcing our second quarter and it is my understanding that it should be very favourable.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-16