Caldera Sues IBM

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

At 05:25 PM 3/9/03 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>SCO will have a hard time explaining why they waited over 4 years
>to decide IBM left them at the altar.

Not really.  They can claim they didn't have definite knowledge till 
Caldera (Linux partner of IBM) bought SCO (UNIX partner of IBM) and they 
could compare notes without NDAs getting in the way.

>SCO will have an even harder
>time demonstrating that major advances in Linux performance and
>architecture that happened *before* IBM got involved were the result
>of IBM disclosing proprietary knowledge.

So true.


>Kurt



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