"It was kind of weird, because they told me they had hired a team at MIT," said Robert McMillan, a correspondent for the IDG News Service. "And then they kind of backpedaled."

?Chris Sontag told me that [they] had a group of mathematicians ?who were at MIT? working on this,? McMillan wrote in an e-mail after checking his notes. ?In subsequent interviews SCO said that these guys had been at MIT and were no longer there.?-- Robert McMillan, 2003-08-25