"That's not true," Bird said. "What they own is some source code and technology" for UnixWare. "That's not the same thing as owning Unix.

"If you're an uneducated observer of this, it would be very easy to say that SCO owns Unix, which is not the case," Bird said.-- Graham Bird, 2003-05-28

"It's a food fight" among several parties, he said. "As an industry analyst, I'm sitting back and watching. This is a set of intriguing developments that stands to only help one company, and it's none of the companies that are participating now."-- Dan Kusnetzky, 2003-05-28

"Novell has answered the call of the open-source community," Perens said. "We admire what they are doing. Based on recent announcements to support Linux with NetWare services and now this revelation ... Novell has just won the hearts and minds of developers and corporations alike."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-28