"He's saying this stuff exists, but he's not willing to reveal it. Well, maybe we'll hear about this in court, but frankly, maybe we won't, because they'll try to seal it all," Perens said. "It sounds like he's trying to FUD Linux in general."

And taking the offensive, Perens added, "Copying works both ways. I want to see some proof they haven't copied Linux source code into SCO Unix."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-01

"They should show us what code they have problems with. We'll take a look at it or we'll just replace it. Keeping us in the dark is just silly,"-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-01

"It's history that can't be erased. They've foregone any royalty because they promised that their distributions would be without a royalty. So there's no royalty upside," he told us.-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-15

"SCO's handful of patents aren't significant. Nobody's ever won a trade-secret case like this one."

[...] "The open-source community has been careful about other people's code for years," Perens said.-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-16

"This benefits Microsoft more than anything else. Microsoft does a little Unix work, but not much," Perens said. ? "This is more of a symbolic act intended to intimidate other companies" into complying with SCO's royalty demands, Perens said. "From my point of view, it weakens (SCO's) case, because it seems that there has been collaboration with Microsoft (over Linux intellectual-property claims) from the start."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-05-19

"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

"I'm a little dubious about this agreement they just sort of found in a drawer somewhere," said Perens, a Berkeley, Calif., Linux developer in his own right. "But even if they end up owning the copyrights, there's still a whole lot of questions whether any Unix code has improperly shown up in Linux."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-06-07

"If we do find out some pieces of Unix code ended up in Linux, then we will take it out and go on with our lives," Perens said. "I don't think it would have any real impact on the open-source movement."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-06-07

"How long do they really think their $3.1 million will last in the courts?" he said. "They are like a little mouse flipping off the eagle, and in this case the eagle has the law on its side," Perens said.-- Bruce Perens, 2003-08-15

"I think that these are probably the best examples that SCO has to show and they're awful," said Perens. "They would not stand up for a day in court."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-08-20

"Are these their best examples?" open-source leader and well-known Debian developer Bruce Perens asked during an interview Wednesday. "Their examples are bogus."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-08-21

"Here are these people who claim we are pirates but refuse to say where and how"-- Bruce Perens, 2003-08-28

"Indemnification is really meaningless. All of the various parties offering it will only refund your purchase price for their software, not your real damages. So, you get nothing that you would not get just by downloading the software from one of the sites that distribute Open Source without charge. Then again, SCO's rantings are just as meaningless, and they have zero chance of prevailing in court, so indemnity is easy to offer.

"People who consider indemnity important need to look more deeply into it."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-09-24

"Canopy Group never understood how to be our partners," he wrote in online comments. "They've chosen to screw us one last time on the way out the door. Let's do our best to turn it back on them."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-09-28

"They will never get this into the courtroom," he predicted. "The arguments will remain over what right does SCO have to the millions of lines they have claimed in Linux."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-09-30

"SCO doesn't want a remedy -- they want it to look as bad as possible," says open-source software advocate Bruce Perens. "They're doing everything they can to portray other engineers and firms using Linux as thieves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Software engineers have no motive to steal code -- and, in fact, we want to fix it."

[...] "We're not talking about a lot of code here. How long would it take to remedy this?" he asks. "About a day."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-10-06

"These guys are making fraudulent accusations," said Bruce Perens, an open source software advocate. "They've had time to understand that they're wrong."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-10-13

"SCO will collapse when it becomes clearer that they really have no more evidence to show," he said. "It will be sad for the stockholders left holding the bag."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-10-16

Bruce Perens [...] blasted SCO's challenge to the GPL's constitutionality as being "way over the top.

Federal law "establishes the right to license copyrights in return for some compensation, which is what the GPL does," Perens said. "The only difference between our licenses and those used by everyone else is that they ask for cash; we ask for some rights regarding derived works."

[...] "What we have here . . . isn't really a serious legal filing. It's just an attempt to delay the inevitable day that the case gets thrown out of court," Perens said.-- Bruce Perens, 2003-10-28

"They (SCO) are doing some incredibly dorky things", he said, "and saying so many things that probably are not true." He gave credit where due, saying SCO's moves "do seem to be propping up their stock price... and as long as they keep that value up, they can take millions of dollars out where you won't see it." He also said, "They are a Microsoft proxy. And this is the way we will see Microsoft fighting open source in the future. There are any number of other proxies out there that would be glad to take millions of dollars in license fees from Microsoft."-- Bruce Perens, 2003-11-18

"I just don't buy it," said Bruce Perens, a Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux developer and open source advocate. " This is just an effort to discredit the open-source community.

"If there were real threats, the police would be there instead of husky fellows with radio tubes in their heads," he said.-- Bruce Perens, 2003-11-19

"My compensation was to have the other people who worked on that software contribute their improvements to the public as I did. That is what the GPL enforces. We call it share and share alike." Others, such as Microsoft, he asserted, might call it a form of Communism.

However, he added, "I think that eventually we'll see some of the open source licenses tested in court. Some of them are very close to straight copyright permissions. If you overturn a term of your license you do not gain rights, you lose them, because the terms of the licenses are what protect you from all rights reserved, which is a default in copyright law."-- Bruce Perens, 2004-01-23

"Show others by example that our side always takes the high road. When they see a low-road sort of action . . . they'll know who to blame," he said.-- Bruce Perens, 2004-02-03

"This is the end game, and they know it.

"But suicide? They have already made their money," he said, referring to the climb of SCO's share prices in the past year from $1.74 to as much as $22.29.-- Bruce Perens, 2004-03-04

The fact that DaimlerChrysler has now produced the requested certification is unlikely to end SCO's lawsuit, said Bruce Perens, an open source advocate who has been following the case. "I do not expect SCO to willingly drop any lawsuit, nor do I expect them to willingly allow any lawsuit to complete," he said. "The whole idea is for SCO to have lawsuits in play and for them to deceive people like Baystar into believing that there's a chance of them succeeding," he said.-- Bruce Perens, 2004-04-29