"All Bill (Gates) says is, 'Give me the opportunity to innovate,' and once again Bill is innovating," Ellison said during a press conference announcing an alliance between Oracle and Sun to promote Sun's Intel-based servers. "You've seen advanced bundling and now you are seeing extreme litigation...They know a lot about extreme litigation."-- Larry Ellison, 2003-05-19

"We paid a big, big bag of money a decade ago to get IP (intellectual property) rights to do what we wanted to do with Solaris," he said at a press conference announcing a new line of Intel-based servers on Monday. "We've got a free and clear SCO license. Your audit committee won't get a letter if you are using Solaris."-- Scott McNealy, 2003-05-19

"We think open source is wonderful and good, but we also believe in copyright and the rule of law," McNealy said.-- Scott McNealy, 2003-05-19

"Based on SCO's recent announcement, it appears that HP was one of 1,500 other companies to receive a letter regarding Linux, the company said in a statement. "HP is unaware of any intellectual property infringement within Linux. The complaint is focused on alleged inappropriate behavior by IBM, it is not about infringement by Linux itself of SCO's IP rights."-- HP PR, 2003-05-19

"With the commercial adoption of solutions based on open source technologies by enterprises, governments, schools and software innovators, legal challenges were expected from entities who face economic consequence by Red Hat's progress in delivering competing alternative solutions," Szulik's letter stated. "Since 1983, lawsuits have become all too commonplace in the software industry. Innovators who challenged proprietary economic models have faced threats to free enterprise throughout the history of commerce."-- Matthew Szulik, 2003-05-19