"This happens every couple of years," said Bradley Kuhn, president of the Free Software Foundation. "What we have here is a company desperately looking for a business model around free software that people are using and loving, and looking to their patent portfolio for revenue."-- Bradley Kuhn, 2003-03-06

"We have very strict confidentiality agreements with IBM about what they can and can't do" with Unix developed using SCO intellectual property, said Darl McBride, president and chief executive of SCO. Further proof of IBM's intellectual property violations will come out in trial, he said.

He also said that a specific type of intellectual property cited in the suit, the so-called "shared libraries" used in the operation of Unix, was "one of seven or eight" different types of IP which SCO is investigating for IP violations by Linux developers. He declined to comment on whether SCO would pursue additional lawsuits against IBM or other Linux companies.-- Darl McBride, 2003-03-06