"There's a lot of big money and big guns who are going to find it in their selfish corporate interest to line up with the open source hackers," Raymond said. "I predict that if SCO attempts to levy patents or seek restraining orders against any of the Linux distributions, there will be a mob with pitchforks and torches at its door."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-02-11

"This is just the beginning; there's going to be a lot more of this,"

[...] "What surprises me is that I thought the first assault would come from Microsoft. I didn't expect it would be some of our guys who would go over to the dark side," Raymond said, referring to the fact that SCO also sells Linux software.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-02-11

"If I were an AIX customer, I might see a small downside risk, but Linux customers certainly shouldn't worry," he said.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-03-07

"SCO's motivation is desperation, because it doesn't have a business left,"-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-03-07

"The history is that much of the commercial value SCO is alleging IBM destroyed was actually created by open-source hackers back in the 1970s and 1980s,"-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-03-07

"I'm intimately familiar with the history of the 'intellectual property' SCO is talking about," said open-source advocate Eric Raymond. "I was there for a lot of the history, as far back as 1982. The fundamental claims in SCO's complaint are a colossal, brazen pack of lies."

"What's mystifying is that they are stupid lies, easily falsified by facts in the public record and SCO's own behavior?. I hope IBM calls me as a witness, so I can eviscerate these clowns."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-05-16

"When SCO shipped what it now claims as its property under GPL, it voluntarily ceded the right to recover for these alleged misappropriations," Raymond said. Read the license and see for yourself."

[...] "Your typical businessperson is much more likely to be impressed by IBM's support of Linux than by SCO's claims," Raymond said.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-05-16

"I didn't get the impression that they were going to settle this case," Raymond says. "And I told Dan, 'We want you to crush these guys. You go after them foot, horse and marines. And we will cheer.'"-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-06-03

"Something I strongly suspect is going to come up in the court case is, how do we know what the direction of transmission was?" said open source advocate Eric Raymond.

"The burden of proof is on [SCO] to demonstrate that the transmission went from System V to IBM to Linux, rather than from System V to SCO's own kernel developers to Linux," he said.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-06-10

Eric Raymond, a free-software developer in Malvern, Pa., says he is concerned about the possibility that a judge could invalidate the GPL. Although he thinks that's unlikely, Mr. Raymond says free-software advocates have created an alternative license that they believe would survive court challenge. Mr. Raymond says the potential new license has won a powerful backer: Linus Torvalds, the Finnish developer of Linux, who has agreed to use the alternative license for Linux if necessary.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-08-14

"I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-09-08

"They have not made a case. We want them to show us the code, line by line, and we will fix it. There will be no negotiations until they do that," he said.

[...] "We view SCO's conduct as intolerable."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-09-10

"It is SCO's expressed intention to destroy the possibility of open-source licensing," he says. "Therefore, if SCO wins, the hacker culture dies. It's pretty much that stark."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-09-19

"Well. the first thing that occurs to me is this: HP obviously doesn't think SCO is going to win its case. They're one of the perpetual Unix licensees from way back; if they thought indemnification were a substantial risk, it would have cost them nothing to take SCO's side -- and they actually have some reason to do so, in order to slow the erosion of their high-margin HP-UX business.

"The second thing that occurs to me is that this is a move to one-up IBM in the Linux-server business increasingly important to both firms."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-09-24

Eric Raymond [...] called SCO's comments "a truly brazen piece of spin." [...]

"What HP is saying is they really don't think SCO has a chance in hell of winning its lawsuits," Raymond said. "HP also may be trying to 'one-up' IBM. They are duking it out with IBM for leadership in Linux distribution. They both see the other as a principal rival."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-09-25

"They're just stirring up mud," Raymond said. "They've got a hearing coming up ... on December 5 on IBM's discovery request and there's a substantial possibility that the judge might quash this case because SCO has failed to respond to IBM's discovery request," he said.-- Eric S. Raymond, 2003-11-14

"The interesting news here is that SCO thinks its stock price needs propping up," said Eric Raymond, the Malvern, Pa., founder of the Open Source Initiative. "This probably means that they think investors are reaching a breaking point and are likely to stampede."-- Eric S. Raymond, 2004-03-12