It's a surreal experience to read this collection of documents. First of all, we know how it came out at the hearing, thanks to our eyewitnesses. Frank reported:

IBM's Motion to Compel Production of Documents on SCO's Privilege Log: Wells found that the Novell->Santa Cruz sale did not transfer everything, and neither did the Santa Cruz->Caldera sale. The Broderick Affidavit is insufficient to establish the transfer of privilege. Motion Granted.

Reviewing the exhibits will show you why the judge reached that decision. Don't let it throw you that sometimes the sentences end in mid-stream. IBM presented only the pages that prove what they wanted to prove, which is normal for something like this, so look on the page or pages for the parts that match the arguments IBM made in its motion papers.

One of the documents is something that Caldera filed in the Caldera v. Microsoft DR DOS case. You'll recall that IBM cleverly found the motion where Microsoft was trying to get documents from Caldera's privilege log, and told the court here that Caldera tried the same arguments that SCO was trying in this litigation, even using some of the same cases. They both failed to convince the court that what transferred was the entire business, along with the privilege, instead of just some assets. But as I'll explain, the surreal part is that had Caldera told the court the truth, they probably could have won that motion. To explain what I mean, we'll need to review a little bit of the history.

No one knew it at the time, but it was actually Novell who secretly asked Caldera to sue Microsoft on its behalf. Novell was worried about retaliation from Microsoft in the marketplace, as we learn in the ruling in a breach of contract action Novell brought against the Canopy Group later:

¶3 Accordingly, Novell entered into negotiations with Caldera, Inc., the predecessor in interest to Canopy, to sell DR DOS to Canopy.(1) The main purposes of this sale were to obligate Canopy to bring suit against Microsoft, to allow Novell to share in the recovery, and at the same time to obfuscate Novell's role in the action against Microsoft. Novell insisted that its role be completely undetectable to avoid retaliation from Microsoft.

The ruling explains in footnote 1 that for economy's sake, the judge used Canopy throughout to mean both Caldera and Canopy. Canopy was obligated to pay Novell a portion of whatever it won from Microsoft, and it did, but first it deducted attorneys' fees and costs, and Novell sued on the grounds that they were not entitled to same. Canopy claimed that there was an oral agreement between them regarding the fees, but the court held them to what was in writing. That is usually what happens, by the way. You are foolish indeed to rely upon an oral agreement, because it's very, very hard to make it stick. First of all, how do you prove it even happened? Then how do you prove the terms of agreement? If the other side denies, you are left with proving that you relied on the agreement's terms. Outcomes tend to be poor. Yet, my gut says that there probably was such an oral agreement. Just a guess, but if you wanted to get another entity to sue Microsoft on your behalf, wouldn't you promise to pay their bills for doing so?

Anyway, to facilitate Caldera being able to sue Microsoft, Novell sold the DR DOS business to Caldera. It eventually ended up in the hands of Canopy, exactly how I don't know, since Caldera was then a private company, but that is how Ralph Yarro and the Gang were able to pocket some rather hefty bonuses, according to the documents filed in the Canopy-Noorda/Yarro et al litigation (cf. example). The new management of Canopy and the Noorda family accused Yarro of implementing, back in 1998, around the time that Mr. Noorda was no longer involved in day to day affairs of Canopy, an Incentive Bonus plan, "without Board review or approval" so as to "reward certain key employees" such as Yarro. Then, when Caldera, then a Portfolio Company, settled the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, they alleged, Yarro, again without Board review or approval, distributed the settlement proceeds to six employees, including himself, his take being, they say, $6.75 million of the total amount of $7.6 million in the bonus pool (no one knows for sure the exact amount of the total settlement):

19. In 1999 or early 2000, Caldera, then a Portfolio Company, settled a significant antitrust lawsuit it had filed against Microsoft Corporation.

20. On or about February 25, 2000, without Board review or approval, Yarro and Mott caused Canopy to distribute a portion of the Caldera settlement proceeds to six Canopy employees, including Yarro and Mott, even though the Caldera settlement was not a Triggering Event as that term is defined in the Incentive Plan. The bonus pool from the Caldera settlement totaled approximately $7.6 million, and Yarro caused himself to be paid approximately $6.75 million of that amount. Mott received approximately $227,000.00.

The case settled, so we'll never know exactly what happened for sure, but Yarro was removed from Canopy and all Canopy companies, and SCO was set adrift from Canopy Group, with Yarro still on its board.

So, to sum up, if ever there was a case where two entities had identical legal interests, Caldera v. Microsoft case was it. But because Novell didn't want anyone to know about this secret arrangement with Caldera, the attorneys told it a different way, and they lost the motion. Ultimately, they won a large settlement from Microsoft, but they lost the motion based on not being open with the court.

That is the surreal part, to me, because here we have SCO going to the court with the same argument, telling the court tales about who they are, that they were oldSCO, for example, when it's clear that oldSCO merely sold Caldera two of its lines of businesses and then kept right on going as Tarantella. Naturally, Judge Wells noticed the disparity.

What stands out to me is Exhibit 2, where Caldera tells the court what Novell sold them in the DR DOS transfer. Compare the incredibly thorough list in the Novell to Caldera DR DOS transfer with what Novell transferred to Santa Cruz, and then Santa Cruz to Caldera, in the Unix transfers, and ask yourself: why the difference? It's the same company, Novell, and yet one list is much more thorough. Here's just part of what Novell listed in the DR DOS deal:

(a) "[S]pecified assets and liabilities comprising the DOS Business including the products associated with the DOS Business" The DOS Business is defined by the Agreement to include "the business of developing, marketing, and distributing the DOS Products." Agreement, §§1.3, 2.5.

(b) DOS Products, including DR DOS, Novell DOS, and ten other listed software products, all of which were acquired by Novell from DRI. Trademarks, patents, and documentation associated with these products are included. Agreement, §§1.3, 2.14, 2.6, 3.1.

(c) "Technology" related to DOS Products, whether owned by Novell or licensed by it. This technology includes "existing enhancements, designs, technology, improvements, inventions, works of authorship, trade secrets, formulas, processes, routines, subroutines, techniques, concepts, methods, ideas, algorithms, source code, object code, flow charts, diagrams, coding sheets, source code listings and annotations, programmers' notes, work papers, and work product." Agreement, §§2.1, 2.14, 2.11.

You will notice that IBM lists as Exhibit 4 the agreement made between oldSCO and Caldera, but it's sealed:

(d) Exhibit 4 is a copy of relevant excerpts from the Acquisition of the Server and Professional Services Groups of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. and the Reorganization of Caldera Systems, Inc., dated May 7, 2001.

So it does exist, even if we can't see it. However, if you go to the SEC website, you can certainly find clarifying information. For example, this 8-K from 2001 mentions the two groups that oldSCO sold to Caldera, "the server and professional services groups", and exhibit 4.01 to that 8-K is the following:

Stockholder Agreement between Registrant, Caldera Systems, Inc., The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., The Canopy Group and MTI Technology Corporation dated as of May 7, 2001 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.13B of the March 26, 2001 Registration Statement).

Also, there's a Amendment 5 to Form S-4 filed on March 3, 2001, in which we find an oldSCO letter to shareholders dated March of 2001 about the sale:

Under the agreement and plan of reorganization, Caldera Systems, Inc. will acquire the assets of our server and our professional services groups. A new company, Caldera International, Inc., will be formed, combining the assets of Caldera Systems with the assets acquired from SCO. After the combination is completed, we will continue to operate our Tarantella business, and accordingly, have decided to change our corporate name. ...

Q: WHAT IS THE EFFECT ON SCO IF THE COMBINATION TAKES PLACE?

A: SCO will continue to operate its Tarantella division and hold the assets of that division and the assets of its investment holdings, including shares of New Caldera common stock received in the combination. SCO's headquarters will remain in Santa Cruz, California and there will be approximately 230 employees worldwide.

So that is why IBM attached those materials, and they will help you to understand why Wells ruled that everything didn't transfer from Santa Cruz to Caldera.

The Broderick affidavit, which Wells found so unpersuasive, is clarified by the Broderick deposition, excerpts of which are attached here. In his declaration, he sounded like he really knew what happened in each transfer, starting with USL, because he had been employed in each hop of the assets transferred ("Since December 1991, I have been continuously employed managing contracts for the successive companies that have owned the UNIX technology and business."). However, in the deposition, we find out that there was a gap in his employment by SCO, and that what he knew was basically just scuttlebut he heard in the hallways and at meetings where all the employees were told about a sale. Since he had made grandiose claims for SCO's ownership, it's offensive to find out he had no particular foundation for the claims made, not being an attorney or directly involved in any of the sales.

Notice how the attorney speaks with him in a most genial, friendly way. Sometimes lawyers do that to make you relax enough to get careless, and so it proved to be. When they are nasty, it's also for a purpose, to get you so mad you blurt things out or show your "true colors". The trick, I'm told, at such events as depositions is to take nothing personally and don't allow yourself to be affected one way or another by whatever they do or say.

We also have as an exhibit an affidavit from Bryan Sparks, who was the CEO of the Caldera company that sued Microsoft. He swears up and down to various facts without ever, of course, mentioning that Caldera was a hired gun of Novell's in the action. He is now heading up Solera Networks, listed as one of vSpring's most promising entrepreneurs in the state of Utah this year, along with Ralph Yarro, in March of 2005. Yarro is listed as CEO of Canopy, but that is no longer the case. Sparks was also CEO of Lineo, another Canopy company, and later of DeviceLogics, which acquired DR DOS from the Canopy Group. It's all a little complex, but here's the way I think it worked. When Lineo was sold off, Sparks formed DR DOS, Inc. with the assets, and from what I gather, DeviceLogics is the parent company. There is still a DR DOS website, listing Sparks as CEO, which gives us this history:

DOS History

DRDOS originated in 1987 at Digital Research, Inc.; was then acquired by Novell in the early 90s; in 1996, DR-DOS was acquired by Caldera, Inc., the same company that sued and settled out-of-court with Microsoft Corporation over DOS-related anti-trust allegations; in 1998, it was spun out to Lineo, Inc. where it underwent enhancements targeted at the embedded market and, in October 2002, was acquired by a new company aptly called DRDOS, Inc.

In 2002, Sparks formed Device Logics, which bought DR DOS from Lineo, according to that page. An article about it in Network World tells us this:

A start-up is looking to dust off and buff up DR-DOS, a largely dormant operating system that still attracts a hardcore following but is best-known for a colorful past that some see checkered with missed opportunity.

DeviceLogics, a company co-founded last month by Bryan Sparks, former CEO and founder of Linux vendors' Lineo (now Embedix) and Caldera Systems (now SCO Group), has bought DR-DOS, which once competed against Microsoft's MS-DOS.....

Digital Research developed DR-DOS, a 32-bit operating system, in 1987 as a fully compatible alternative to MS-DOS for 80286- and 80386-based PCs. It succeeded creator Gary Kildall's Control Program for Microcomputers (CP/M). The most popular legend told is that Kildall, the CEO of Intergalactic Digital Research (later shortened to Digital Research), was piloting his plane the day IBM approached the company about licensing CP/M for its first microcomputer - instead, IBM signed Microsoft's MS-DOS.

In 1991, Novell acquired Digital Research, DR-DOS and CP/M, with plans to compete against MS-DOS in the DOS market. When Novell CEO Ray Noorda failed to capitalize on the plan to take over the DOS market, Novell sold DR-DOS to Caldera in 1996. Caldera, which Sparks founded with Noorda's assistance, then sued Microsoft for lost sales and unfair competition and settled out of court for an unspecified amount.

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SNELL & WILMER L.L.P.
Alan L. Sullivan (3152)
Todd M. Shaughnessy (6651)
Amy F. Sorenson (8947)
[address, phone, fax]

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP
Evan R. Chesler (admitted pro hac vice)
David R. Marriott (7572)
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff
International Business Machines Corporation

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH

THE SCO GROUP, INC., Plaintiff/Counterclaim-Defendant, v. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff.

DECLARATION OF TODD M. SHAUGHNESSY IN SUPPORT OF IBM's REPLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS ON SCO'S PRIVILEGE LOG Civil No. 2:03-CV-0294DAK Honorable Dale A. Kimball Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells

1. I represent IBM in the lawsuit brought by SCO against IBM, entitled The SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation, Civil No. 2:03CV-0294 DAK (D. Utah 2003). This declaration is submitted in support of Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff IBM's Reply Memorandum in Support of Motion to Compel Production of Documents on SCO's Privilege Log.

2. Attached hereto are true and correct copies of the following documents:

(a) Exhibit 1 is a copy of relevant excerpts from the transcript of the January 28, 1998 hearing before the Honorable Ronald N. Boyce in Caldera, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., (No. 2:96-CV-000645B).

(b) Exhibit 2 is a copy of Caldera, Inc.'s Memorandum In Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Compel Production of Documents Subject to Attorney-Client Privilege, dated Dec. 15, 1997, in Caldera, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (No. 2:96-CV-000645B).

(c) Exhibit 3 is a copy of relevant excerpts from The SCO Group Inc.'s 2003 Annual Report (Form 10-K), dated Jan. 28, 2004.

(d) Exhibit 4 is a copy of relevant excerpts from the Acquisition of the Server and Professional Services Groups of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. and the Reorganization of Caldera Systems, Inc., dated May 7, 2001.

(e) Exhibit 5 is a copy of relevant excerpts from the transcript of the deposition of William Broderick, dated Nov. 30, 2005.

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Executed: December 9, 2005.

Salt Lake City, Utah

__[signature]___
Todd M. Shaughnessy

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

Brent O. Hatch
Mark F. James
HATCH, JAMES & DODGE, P.C.
[address]

Robert Silver
Edward Normand
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
[address]

Stephen N. Zack
Mark J. Heise
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
[address]

___[signature]___
Todd M. Shaughnessy

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EXHIBIT 1

5

[stamp: 11 AUG 98 11:10
DISTRICT OF UTAH
By: ______
DEPUTY CLERK]

* * *

CALDERA, INC.,

Plaintiff,

V.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

Defendant.

Case #96cv0645B

BEFORE THE HON. RONALD N. BOYCE

January 28, 1998

Motion to Amend, Motion to Compel
Production of Documents, Motion for Amendment
of the Protective Order

Reported by Michelle Mallonee, CSR, RPR

ALPHA COURT REPORTING
[address, phone, fax]

File No. 01289M

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2 THE COURT: All right. On this matter, since we

3 are dealing with essentially notice pleading and not a

4 heightened state pleading, this type of pleading is within

5 the Supreme Court's decision in Leatherman, and it requires a

6 relatively superficial expression of theory rather than

7 details of facts. I think the provisions contained in the

8 pleadings are adequate to allow the amendment. Whether the

9 contentions made by Microsoft as to whether a technological

10 benefit could be shown which could defeat the claim, which is

11 the joining of the two, then that would effectively eliminate

13 the claim regardless of what dominant purpose of that is. I

14 think that has to await information in the form of a

15 challenge, either under Rule 56 or through some other

16 mechanism, so I'll allow the amendment of the complaint.

17 I don't think I really need argument on the

18 attorney-client privilege matter. I've done a lot of work on

19 that, and I'm satisfied the claim of attorney-client

20 privilege is not valid. When the Novell documents were

21 turned over to Caldera, that destroyed the privilege.

22 Caldera is not the alterego or successor in interest in the

23 legal context of those materials. The analogies to the

24 Supreme Court's decision with regard to its successor of

25 interest, such as a Trustee in bankruptcy, are an imperfect

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2 It's a simple waiver situation. You have separate

3 entities, and one entity hands over to the other all of the

4 technology and information and materials covered by an

5 attorney-client privilege. Without some type of additional

6 protection that privilege is gone, and so the Motion to

7 Compel will be granted with regard to those documents.

8 MR. HILL: Your Honor, on this point, we had made a

9 determination that we were going to concede the issue, but we

10 do have some questions regarding the manner of turning things

11 over, and if we could address those now.

12 THE COURT: All right.

13 MR. HILL: I think it might be helpful, first we

14 have wanted to clarify that the waiver only applies to

15 documents that have actually been delivered from Novell to

16 Caldera.

17 THE COURT: As long as there are documents in

18 Novell's possession that have not otherwise been distributed

19 beyond the legitimacy of the attorney-client privilege, then

20 they are still protected.

21 MR. HILL: Number two, this is an issue we haven't

22 presented facts before the Court on this because we didn't

23 think it was, strictly speaking, relevant to the motion, but

24 there are some documents constituting legal advice from at

25 least my law firm and Mr. Palumbo's predecessor law firm,

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EXHIBIT 2

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MAX D. WHEELER (A3439)
STEPHEN J. HILL (A1493)
RYAN E. TIBBITTS (A4423)
SNOW CHRISTENSEN & MARTINEAU
[address, phone]

PARKER C. FOLSE III
SUSMAN GODFREY LLP
[address, phone]

RALPH H. PALUMBO
LYNN M. ENGEL
SUMMIT LAW GROUP
[address, phone]

______________________

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF UTAH, CENTER DIVISION

______________________

CALDERA, INC.

Plaintiff

vs.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Defendant.

_______________________

MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO
DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO
COMPEL PRODUCTION OF
DOCUMENTS SUBJECT TO
ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

Case No.: 2:96CV 0645B

Judge Dee V. Benson

_________________________

INTRODUCTION

Defendant Microsoft Corporation has filed a motion to compel production of documents which have been withheld by plaintiff Caldera, Inc. on the grounds of attorney-client privilege. In arguing the motion, Microsoft mischaracterizes both the nature of the

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In addition, Caldera is not an unrelated third party as to Novell's attorney-client relationships, and so disclosure of Novell's privileged documents to Caldera does not operate as a waiver of Novell's (and now Caldera's) privilege. The documents at issue were created in the course of Novell's and DRI's conduct of the business now owned by Caldera, and, indeed, most of the documents at issue in this motion were actually generated during Novell's efforts to investigate and prepare many of the claims which are now part of Caldera's action here. As Novell and Caldera are defending the same legal interests, they are entitled to share information regarding those interests without waiving any privilege.

One important aspect of the DOS Business acquired by Caldera is the legal rights which Caldera seeks to vindicate through this lawsuit. The value of these claims depends, of

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BACKGROUND

DRI was originally organized in 1976, and was in the business of developing operating system software for 15 years as an independent corporate entity. On October 28, 1991, DRI merged with Novell through a stock buy-out.

On July 23, 1997, Caldera acquired from Novell its so-called "DOS Business" pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement ("Agreement"). This Agreement, attached to Microsoft's Memorandum as Exhibit "A," transferred from Novell to Caldera the entire DOS business that Novell acquired from DRI. As stated in the Agreement, the transfer included the following:

(a) "[S]pecified assets and liabilities comprising the DOS Business including the products associated with the DOS Business" The DOS Business is defined by the Agreement to include "the business of developing, marketing, and distributing the DOS Products." Agreement, §§1.3, 2.5.

(b) DOS Products, including DR DOS, Novell DOS, and ten other listed software products, all of which were acquired by Novell from DRI. Trademarks, patents, and

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(c) "Technology" related to DOS Products, whether owned by Novell or licensed by it. This technology includes "existing enhancements, designs, technology, improvements, inventions, works of authorship, trade secrets, formulas, processes, routines, subroutines, techniques, concepts, methods, ideas, algorithms, source code, object code, flow charts, diagrams, coding sheets, source code listings and annotations, programmers' notes, work papers, and work product." Agreement, §§2.1, 2.14, 2.11.

(d) Software contracts, including "(a) licenses from third parties (development and/or marketing), (b) licenses from third parties (internal use only); (c) development contracts, work-for-hire agreements, and consulting and employment agreements; (d) distributorships, dealerships, franchises, and manufacturer's representative contracts; (e) licenses and sublicenses to others; and (f) maintenance, support, or enhancement agreements." Agreement, §§3.1, 2.12

(e) Revenues "associated with the DOS Business" accruing after the date of the Agreement. Agreement, §3.1

(f) "All of Novell's right, title, and interest in and to any and all claims or causes of action held by Novell at the Closing Date and associated directly or indirectly with any of the DOS Products or Related Technology. . . " Id.

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As required under the Agreement, Novell assigned to Caldera approximately 100 active contracts with customers for the license of DR DOS products. Those included contracts with independent retailers, value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and major accounts. Declaration of Bryan Sparks, ¶3. (attached as Exhibit "A")

Following the assignment of these contracts, Caldera assumed all of Novell's rights and obligations arising out of the DOS Business. These included the right to ongoing royalties and the obligation to provide product support (e.g., fixing bugs and deficiencies), account management (e.g., providing cross promotional and marketing activities), and sales support. Declaration of Bryan Sparks, ¶4.

On September 16, 1996, Novell's General Counsel and Senior Vice President, David R. Bradford, authorized Novell's attorneys to make available to Caldera all documents related to the DOS Business, based upon his understanding that all privileges associated with such documents would be preserved. Bradford Letter, attached as Exhibit "B."

ARGUMENT

Both in the conduct of the DOS Business and in the litigation of the claims raised in this lawsuit, Caldera must stand in the shoes of Novell. Caldera is obligated to support the software developed by Novell, and is further required to fulfill the contractual obligations associated with that business which Novell negotiated and executed. Acceptance of those

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1. Caldera Purchased the Entire DOS Business from Novell, and Thereby Acquired the Right to Exercise Privileges Associated with That Business.

In Commodity Futures Trading Com'n v. Weintraub, 471 U.S. 343, 105 S.Ct. 1986 (1985), the Supreme Court reiterated the general rule regarding the tranfer of a corporation's attorney-client privilege: whenever control over the entity is passed on, the authority to assert the privilege passes as well. Id. at 349-50. In applying that rule, the Court held that since a trustee in bankruptcy has the power to operate the business, even in the course of a liquidation, the ability to control the business' privileges should be vested in the trustee. Id. at 352-53. It has since been clearly recognized that the Court "established a functional test" to determine whether a successor is entitled to control privileges, looking to the entity which controls the relevant business operations, regardless of whether the corporate structure remains

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In this case, the entire, distinct DOS Business was transferred from Novell to Caldera, and control of the privileges associated with that business are a necessary component of it. As with any ongoing business, the advice of counsel related to the operation of the DOS Business is an important aspect of the business to Caldera. See Agreement, §§2.4, 2.14 (Transferred Assets includes "all accounting and legal records directly related to the abuse or enforcement of any right or interest in the Transferred Assets").

In order to make their argument in support of this motion, Microsoft has mischaracterized the transaction between Novell and Caldera as a simple transfer of particular assets, ignoring the nature of the assets which have been transferred. This was not a mere sale of software; the intent and effect of the Agreement is to transfer an ongoing business -- indeed, a business that was totally separate and thriving when owned by DRI before its merger with Novell -- with all of its accompanying assets, liabilities, contracts, and legal rights. When the DOS Business was transferred to Caldera, the documents and their associated privileges relevant to the management of that business were transferred to the new owners.

In In re Grand Jury Subpoenas, 89-3 and 89-4, 902 F.2d 244 (4th Cir. 1990), the court considered a situation in which an unincorporated division of a corporation was independently incorporated as a formal subsidiary, and then later sold. The court held that the subsidiary controlled the privileges associated with documents related to the subsidiary's business, even

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When [the corporation] established Subsidiary, ... caus[ing] the managment of Subsidiary to change from that of a true subsidiary to that of an independent corporation, there was a change of management in the normal course of business. The attorney-client or work product privilege attaching to any of the papers involved in this case... became Subsidiary's to waive, should it be so advised.

902 F.2d at 248.

The fact that the DOS Business at issue in this case was sold to a third party instead of being independently incorporated prior to being sold does not alter the analysis: the issue is one of deciding where the management control of the DOS Business lies, not in an artificial analysis of the nature of the formal corporate structure. A change in control of the privilege can result from any shift in management over the operations of the business, whether it is "a takeover, merger, loss of confidence of shareholders, or simply normal succession." Weintraub, supra, 471 U.S. at 349. "When ownership of a corporation changes hands, whether the attorney-client relationship transfers as well to the new owners turns on the practical consequences rather than the formalities of the particular transaction." Tekni-Plex, Inc. v. Meyner and Landis, 651 N.Y.S.2d 954, 959 (N.Y. App. 1996). In this case, the "practical consequences" of the transaction was to transfer the control and management of an ongoing business to Caldera, along with all of that business' rights and obligations.

This is true even if the transfer is designated as a "sale of asseets." In Tekni-Plex, supra, an existing entity ("old Tekni-Plex") was merged into a new corporation ("new Tekni-Plex") by means of an asset sale. As in this case, the argument was made that since the

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Caldera has likewise acquired "all of the rights, privileges, liabilites, and obligations" associated with the DOS Business, and its ability to "defend against these liabilities or pursue any of these rights" requires it to rely on the prior legal work and advice of the business' attorneys, and to retain the privileges associated with that advice. The explicit transfer of these claims to Caldera makes it especially clear that Caldera is entitled to control the attorney client privilege associated with the acquired business. These claims constitute

assets and liabilities as to which the need for post-sale access to pre-sale legal advice may be expected in the ordinary course of business. For example, questions may arise after the sale regarding... a continuing contract on which pertinent legal advice was obtained prior to the sale. Sale of the stock of the subsidiary also assumes the ability of successor management to excercise normal management prerogatives. Those prerogatives include control over the privileges of the corporation.

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The cases cited by Microsoft in fact confirm this analysis. In each of them, the court simply considered whether the acquiring entity, whether another corporation or a bankruptcy trustee, had merely acquired a simple asset, or whether it had actually taken over an existing business with the responsibility or right to continue that business. Thus, the distintion is drawn between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acting as a receiver, with the responsibility to run the business, or the FDIC acting on its own behalf in acquiring some corporate asset. In the former case, the FDIC would also acquire any attorney-client privileges held by the acquired entity, for the simple reason that such privileges would be necessary to protect legal interests associated with the enterprise. In the latter case, when the FDIC, acting as an independent corporation simply purchases an asset, there is no right or responsibility to operate the defunct business, and there is no such need for a transfer of privileges in order for it to perform its function. Federal Deposit Ins. Co. v. Amundson, 682 F.Supp. 981, 987 (D.Minn. 1988) ("There is no thought or effort to reconstitute the entity or to run it at all. There is only an effort to sift the ashes, selling off what is valuable or collecting on its receivables."); Federal Deposit Ins. Co. v. McAtee, 124 F.R.D. 662, 664

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Because Caldera is the successor to the Novell's entire DOS Business -- including all of its assets, obligations, and rights -- the attorney-client privileges associated with that business are also transferred to Caldera.

2. Novell's Transfer of Privileged Documents to Caldera Does Not Constitute a Waiver.

Quite apart from the above-stated rule that corporate-owned evidentiary privileges are transferred to the new management of a business, the transfer to Caldera of the legal claims related to the DOS Business which have been raised in this action gives Caldera the right to exercise any attorney-client privilege arising out of DRI's and Novell's investigation and preparation for these claims.

The general rule, of course, is that disclosure of communications protected by the attorney-client privilege to an unrelated third party operates as a waiver of the privilege. "The privilege is not, however, waived if a privileged communication is shared with a third person who has a common legal interest with respect to the subject matter of the communication." Hodges, Grant & Kaufmann v. U.S. Government, 768 F.2d 719, 721 (5th Cir. 1985).

A community of interest exists among different persons or separate corporations where they have an identical legal interest with respect to the subject matter of a communication between an attorney and a client concerning legal advice. The third parties receiving copies of the communication and claiming a community of interest

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may be distinct legal entities from the client receiving the legal advice and may be a non-party to any anticipated or pending litigation. The key consideration is that the nature of the interest be identical, not similar, and be legal, not solely commercial.

Duplan Corp. v. Deering Milliken, Inc., 397 F.Supp. 1146, 1172 (D.S.C. 1974). See also Rayman v. American Charter, 148 F.R.D. 647, 653-54 (D.Nebh. 1993) (disclosure of privileged communications to third party in merger negotiations does not waive privilege because the third party would eventually be presented with the same legal problems).

Caldera, Novell, and DRI have all shared the exact same legal interest in the advice obtained from attorneys with regard to the claims asserted in this lawsuit. The disclosure of those attorney communications to Caldera was accomplished as part of the transfer of the DOS Business and its legal claims to Caldera, and does not constitute a waiver of the privileges associated with that business.

3. Transfer of this Claim to Caldera Transfers Control of Privileges Associated with the Claim.

As a result of its agreement with Novell, Caldera acquired all rights to the claims asserted in this lawsuit. The general rule is that when a legal claim is assigned from one party to another, regardless of the relationship between the parties, the assignee stands in the shoes of the assignor for all purposes, including control over any privileges otherwise controlled by the assignor.

For example, in Dome Petroleum Limited v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co., 131 F.R.D. 63 (D.N.J. 1990), the court considered whether an entity which acquired the rights of another entity in a lawsuit against a third party may control the attorney-client privileges of the original owner of the claim. The court analogized to the position of a bankruptcy trustee

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Indeed, by obtaining all documents relevant to the claims it acquired from Novell, including corporate records containing privileged communications, Caldera has simply fulfilled its duty to put itself in the same position with regard to discovery in this lawsuit as Novell would have been. See The Bank of New York v. Meridien Biao Bank Tanzania, Ltd., 171 F.R.D. 135, 147-49 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) (an assignee of claims is required to obtain access to documents from the assignor in order to comply with anticipated discovery requirements). In The Bank of New York, the court held that privileged communications of the assignor's employees were not subject to disclosure, even though they were then in the possession of the assignee, which had listed the documents in its privilege log. Id. at 154. Similarly, the transfer of legal claims associated with the DOS Business to Caldera necessitates that Caldera have access to all documents and information relevant to those claims, and that Caldera have the right to exercise privileges associated with those documents.

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For the foregoing reasons, Microsoft's Motion to Compel Production of Documents Subject to Attorney-Client Privilege should be denied.

DATED this 15 day of December, 1997.

SNOW, CHRISTENSEN & MARTINEAU

By __[signature]___
MAX D. WHEELER
STEPHEN J. HILL
RYAN E. TIBBITTS
Attorneys for Plaintiff

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

Richard J. Urowsky
Steven L. Holley
Richard C. Pepperman, II
SULLIVAN & CROMWELL
[address]

James R. Weiss
PRESTON, GARES ELLIS & ROUVELS
MEEDS
[address]

William H. Neukom
Thomas W. Burt
David A. Heiner, Jr.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
[address]

and hand-delivered to:

James S. Jardine
Mark M. Battilyon
RAY, QUINNEY & NEBEKER
[address]

DATED this 15th day of December, 1997.

___[signature]___
Melissa A. Larson

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A

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MAX D. WHEELER (A3439)
STEPHEN J. HILL (A1493)
RYAN E. TIBBITTS (A4423)
SNOW CHRISTENSEN & MARTINEAU
[address, phone]

PARKER C. FOLSE III
SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.
[address]

RALPH H. PALUMBO
LYNN M. ENGEL
SUMMIT LAW GROUP
[address, phone]

Attorneys for Plaintiff

_______________________________________

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF UTAH, CENTRAL DIVISION

______________________________________

CALDERA, INC.

Plaintiff

vs.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Defendant.

DECLARATION OF BRYAN W. SPARKS

Case No.: 2:96CV 0645B

Judge Dee V. Benson

___________________________________

I, Bryan W. Sparks, declare as follows:

1. I am President and CEO of the plaintiff, Caldera, Inc.

2. On July 23, 1996, Caldera acquired its DOS Business from Novell, Inc., pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement.

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4. Following the assignment of these contracts, Caldera assumed all of Novell's rights and obligations. These included the right to ongoing royalties and the obligation to provide product support (e.g., fixing bugs and deficiencies), account management (e.g., providing cross promotional and marketing activities), and sales support.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on December 15, 1997.

___[signature]___
Bryan W. Sparks

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September 16, 1996

Stephen Hill
C/O Snow, Christensen & Martineau
[address]

Sturgis Sobin
C/O Ablondi, Foster, Sobin & Davidow
[address]

Re: Transfer of DOS Business to Caldera

Gentlemen:

As you are aware, effective July 23, 1996, Novell entered into an agreement with Caldera, Inc. to transfer to Caldera substantially all of the assets and ongoing business of Novell's DOS business. This transfer specifically included transfer to Caldera of "all of Novell's right, title, and interest in and to any and all claims or causes of action held by Novell" related to the DOS business. The agreement also calls for Novell to transfer to Caldera legal records "directly related to the abuse or enforcement of any right or interest" in the DOS business. As you are also aware, Caldera has filed suit against Microsoft for injury to the DOS Business ("the DOS litigation").

Pursuant to the terms of the July 23 Agreement, I authorize you to make available to Caldera, Inc. and/or any counsel or consultants representing Caldera all documents, materials, and information, including any privileged materials, in your possession relating to Novell's DOS business, including specifically all documents and materials relating to or obtained in conjunction with the FTC's and Department of Justice's investigations into Microsoft. It is my understanding that any privilege of Novell applicable to these materials transfers with the DOS Business to Caldera and will be preserved. In this regard, you are also authorized to engage in discussions with Caldera or its counsel regarding all aspects of the above referenced subjects. I understand that confidentiality of these materials similarly will be preserved in this transfer.

Consistent with the terms of the agreement, I also authorize you and any other counsel representing Caldera in the DOS litigation, to the extent necessary to enforce Caldera's rights in the DOS Business, to contact any current or former Novell employees who were related to the DOS Business. In the event that you desire to contact current Novell employees, I ask that you coordinate such contacts with my office and that you minimize any disruption to their ongoing responsibilities.

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Finally, this letter will serve to confirm that Novell is aware of no conflicts of interest that it believes would be grounds to prevent you and your law firm from representing Caldera in the DOS litigation, and agrees to waive any past or present claim of conflict. Moreover, should any unforeseen conflict arise in the future, Novell will make every effort to insure that the issue is resolved without disqualification of you or your firm in the DOS litigation.

Sincerely,

__[signature]__
David R. Bradford
Sr. Vice President
and General Counsel

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EXHIBIT 3

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2003
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13
OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to .

Commission file number: 0-29911

THE SCO GROUP, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State of incorporation)
[address]
(Address of principal executive
offices, including zip code)

87-0662823
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
[phone]
(Registrant's telephone
number, including area code)

Securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Title of Each Class
Common Stock, par value $.001 per share

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes No

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the Registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference on Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes No

The aggregate market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant was approximately $20.6 million based on the reported last sale price of common stock on April 30, 2003, which is the last business day of the Registrant's most recently completed second fiscal quarter. The number of shares of the Registrant's common stock outstanding as of January 27, 2004, was 14,306,640.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant's proxy statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with its annual meeting of stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.

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Additionally, as part of our SCOsource initiatives, in fiscal year 2003, we entered into two significant vendor license agreements with Sun Microsystems ("Sun") and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft"). We will continue pursuing our SCOsource initiatives in fiscal year 2004, seeking to obtain additional vendor licensing agreements similar to the Sun and Microsoft agreements and pursuing our SCOsource IP license initiative with Linux end users. We also plan to continue to pursue our litigation against IBM, and have announced that we expect in the near term to commence our first legal action against an end user violating our intellectual property or contractual rights. On January 20, 2004, we brought suit against Novell, Inc. ("Novell") for slander of title seeking relief for Novell's alleged bad faith efforts to interfere with our copyrights related to our UNIX source code and derivative works and our UnixWare product. We describe our legal action against Novell in more detail below under Part I, Item 3 of this Form 10-K.

Historical Information

We originally incorporated as Caldera Systems, Inc., a Utah corporation ("Caldera Systems"), in August 1998, and reincorporated as a Delaware corporation in March 2000, when we completed an initial public offering of our common stock. In May 2001 we formed a new holding company in Delaware under the name of Caldera International, Inc. ("Caldera International")to acquire substantially all of the assets and operations of the server and professional services groups of the Santa Cruz Operation, now known as Tarantella, Inc. In connection with this acquisition, Caldera Systems became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caldera International. Former holders of shares and options to purchase shares of Caldera Systems received an equal number of shares and options to purchase shares in Caldera International.

On May 16, 2003, our stockholders approved our corporate name change from Caldera International, Inc. to The SCO Group, Inc. as used herein, the "Company" or "us," "we," "ours," or similar terms refer to The SCO Group, Inc. and our operating subsidiaries.

UNIX-Based Products and Services Business

Background

Our core business focus is to serve the needs of small-to-medium sized businesses, including branch offices and franchisees of Fortune 1000 companies, by providing reliable, cost effective UNIX operating systems and software products to power computers running Intel architecture. We also provide a full range of pre and post sale technical support for all of our products, primarily focusing on OpenServer and UnixWare. Additionally, we provide UNIX-based professional consulting and custom software development services.

Our largest source of revenue for our core UNIX business is derived from our worldwide, indirect, leveraged channel of partners, which includes distributors and independent solution providers (collectively, "resellers"). We have local offices in a number of countries that provide support and services to customers and resellers in those geographic areas. The other principal channel for selling and marketing our products is through large corporations which have a large number of branch offices or franchisees. We access these corporations through their information technology or purchasing departments with our direct sales team in the United States and through our reseller channel in countries outside the United States. In addition, we also sell our operating system products to original

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EXHIBIT 4

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FILED UNDER SEAL

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EXHIBIT 5

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF UTAH

---------------------------------------------------------X

THE SCO GROUP,

Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant,

-against-

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES

CORPORATION,

Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff.

Civil Action No.

2:03 CV-294 (DAK)

------------------------------------------------------------X

November 30, 2005

10:00 a.m.

Videotaped deposition of WILLIAM BRODERICK, taken by Defendant, pursuant to Notice, at the offices of Boies Schiller & Flexner, 150 John F. Kennedy Parkway, Short Hills, New Jersey, before Georgette K. Betts, a Certified Shorthand Reporter and Notary Public within and for the States of New Jersey and New York.

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10:04:01 - 2| Perkin-Elmer Data Systems Group. It's a

10:04:05 - 3| computer manufacturing company. And I was with

10:04:08 - 4| them until I left in - - from '80 to I think it

10:04:15 - 5| was December '91 when I joined USL and I had

10:04:20 - 6| financial and marketing and business planning

10:04:23 - 7| positions at Perkin-Elmer who subsequently spun

10:04:29 - 8| off and became the Concurrent Computer

10:04:32 - 9| Corporation.

10:04:32 - 10| Q. Thanks. A little bit about your

10:04:35 -11| schooling, you said you graduated from Santa

10:04:36 - 12| Clara University with an MBA. What was your

10:04:39 - 13| undergraduate degree in?

10:04:40 - 14| A. Business degree from William

10:04:41 - 15| Paterson College here in New Jersey.

10:04:44 - 16| Q. So you didn't go to law school, is

10:04:45 - 17| that correct?

10:04:46 - 18| A. No.

10:04:47 - 19| Q. Obviously then you're not an

10:04:48 - 20| attorney?

10:04:49 - 21| A. No, I'm not.

10:04:50 - 22| Q. Lucky you sometimes probably.

10:04:53 - 23| I guess with that then, you're not

10:04:55 - 24| prepared or able to give any legal opinions then

10:04:58 - 25| based on the transactions that occurred that you

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10:05:00 - 2| discuss in your declaration, is that correct?

10:05:03 - 3| MR. STONE: Object to the form

10:05:03 - 4| of the question, but you can answer

10:05:05 - 5| it.

10:05:05 - 6| A. That's true.

10:05:12 - 7| Q. What did you do to prepare for

10:05:14 - 8| your deposition today?

10:05:19 - 9| MR. STONE: Hold on a second.

10:05:22 - 10| Sorry.

10:05:23 - 11| MR. WHEATLEY: You want to take

10:05:23 - 12| a break?

10:05:24 - 13| MR. STONE: No, I just need to

10:05:25 - 14| finish - -

10:05:27 - 15| MR. WHEATLEY: Finish eating.

10:05:28 - 16| Mr. STONE: - - this so I can say

10:05:30 - 17| something.

10:05:33 - 18| I just want to put something on

10:05:35 - 19| the record at this point it makes

10:05:37 - 20| sense to put it on. Mr. Broderick had

10:05:41 - 21| originally prepared as a 30(b)(6)

10:05:44 - 22| witness for today, that is what we had

10:05:46 - 23| been advised he was going to be

10:05:50 - 24| questioned on topic 1, 5, 9 - -

10:05:57 - 25| actually 5, 9, and 23 from IBM's

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10:13:59 - 2| can answer.

10:14:00 - 3| A. I've been with the UNIX

10:14:01 - 4| organization from Unix System Laboratories

10:14:04 - 5| onward and I was an employee at each one of the

10:14:10 - 6| transactions where the UNIX business was sold.

10:14:12 - 7| And this is my - - this is what I know is what

10:14:15 - 8| happened.

10:14:17 - 9| Q. Based on being with the UNIX

10:14:20 - 10| System, is that what you mean?

10:14:23 - 11| A. Based on being the UNIX Systems

10:14:24 - 12| and working with the people.

10:14:28 - 13| Q. What is - - why don't you define

10:14:30 - 14| UNIX System for me as you used it there?

10:14:32 - 15| A. The UNIX System would be the UNIX

10:14:36 - 16| business.

10:14:37 - 17| Q. Which is - - go ahead.

10:14:38 - 18| A. Which is UNIX is an operating

10:14:42 - 19| system and it started with Western Electric

10:14:46 - 20| which became AT&T and it's been progressively

10:14:50 - 21| developed through the years and it's been

10:14:52 - 22| licensed and supported and that's what I would

10:14:57 - 23| refer to as the UNIX business.

10:15:10 - 24| Q. Let's go down to paragraph 4. It

10:15:13 - 25| says "Since December 1991," you state that

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10:15:16 - 2| you've been continuously employed managing

10:15:18 - 3| contracts for successive companies that have

10:15:21 - 4| owned the UNIX technology and business, correct?

10:15:23 - 5| A. That's correct. But continuously

10:15:25 - 6| employed there was a seven month period late

10:15:32 - 7| 2002 early 2003 where I wasn't a full-time

10:15:37 - 8| employee of the company. I did work on a

10:15:40 - 9| contract basis and then I was rehired in April

10:15:42 - 10| of 2003.

10:15:44 - 11| Q. By the SCO Group?

10:15:45 - 12| A. Yes.

10:15:46 - 13| Q. Did you work for somebody else at

10:15:47 - 14| that time as well?

10:15:48 - 15| A. For a, I believe it was a four

10:15:51 - 16| month period I worked for another company.

10:15:53 - 17| Q. Which company was that?

10:15:54 - 18| A. AIG.

10:15:55 - 19| Q. What did you do for AIG?

10:15:57 - 20| A. Contracts.

10:15:58 - 21| Q. Same thing?

10:15:58 - 22| A. Uh-huh.

10:16:01 - 23| Q. Why was there that break there,

10:16:02 - 24| that seven month break?

10:16:04 - 25| A. I was laid off.

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10:24:18 - 2| lawyer, but I don't know his name. I think

10:24:22 - 3| Sandy Tannenbaum was in charge of legal.

10:24:26 - 4| Q. Did you work with these

10:24:27 - 5| individuals?

10:24:27 - 6| A. Yes, from time to time.

10:24:39 - 7| MR. STONE: Excuse me for just

10:24:40 - 8| one second.

10:24:41 - 9| MR. WHEATLEY: Take a quick

10:24:42 - 10| break?

10:24:43 - 11| MR. STONE: Just 10 seconds.

10:24:45 - 12| THE VIDEO OPERATOR: Go off the

10:24:45 - 13| record, it is now 10:24. We'll go off

10:24:48 - 14| the video record.

10:24:52 - 15| (Recess.)

10:25:03 - 16| THE VIDEO OPERATOR: It is now

10:25:03 - 17| 10:24, we'll now go back on the video

10:25:07 - 18| record.

10:25:15 - 19| BY MR. WHEATLEY

10:25:15 - 20| Q. Do you know why AT&T spun off USL

10:25:19 - 21| as a separate entity?

10:25:21 - 22| A. No.

10:25:22 - 23| Q. You weren't around when that

10:25:23 - 24| occurred, is that correct?

10:25:24 - 25| A. That's correct.

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10:28:09 - 2| Q. To determine what the customer

10:28:10 - 3| wanted or needed?

10:28:11 - 4| A. To determine what the customer - -

10:28:14- 5| demonstrate the product, work with the customer

10:28:17 - 6| make sure that was the product that they wanted.

10:28:21 - 7| Q. What was the product management,

10:28:22 - 8| is that a group?

10:28:24 - 9| A. Yes.

10:28:25 - 10| Q. What did they do?

10:28:28 - 11| A. Each product had a product manager

10:28:30 - 12| assigned to it who worked with a product to make

10:28:36 - 13| sure it included the functionality that that

10:28:39 - 14| product management - - manager determined that

10:28:41 - 15| would be an area that you'd have to talk to

10:28:44 - 16| product management about.

10:28:46 - 17| Q. But you didn't - - okay.

10:28:59 - 18| I'm just going to ask you for each

10:29:01 - 19| one of these transactions that occurred, the

10:29:03 - 20| sale of the assets I'm going to ask you a set of

10:29:05 - 21| questions on each one. It will probably go

10:29:08 - 22| fairly quickly.

10:29:09 - 23| Again we're looking at paragraph 6

10:28:11 - 24| again in your declaration where you talk about

10:28:15 - 25| AT&T selling USL to Novell. And I just want to

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10:29:19 - 2| know what was your role in that sale.

10:29:22 - 3| A. I was told shortly I'd be getting

10:29:24 - 4| new business cards.

10:29:26 - 5| Q. After the fact?

10:29:27 - 6| A. Yes.

10:29:29 - 7| Q. So is it fair to say you didn't

10:29:30 - 8| have any involvement in it?

10:29:32 - 9| A. I had no involvement.

10:29:33 - 10| Q. No one consulted you about it?

10:29:35 - 11| A. No.

10:29:36 - 12| Q. No one asked for your

10:29:38 - 13| recommendations, your opinion about it?

10:29:39 - 14| A. No.

10:29:41 - 15| Q. You weren't involved in the

10:29:43 - 16| negotiations?

10:29:44 - 17| A. No.

10:29:46 - 18| Q. Do you know what the purpose was

10:29:48 - 19| of the transaction?

10:29:51 - 20| A. Novell was to acquire the UNIX

10:29:54 - 21| technology, UNIX business from AT&T.

10:29:56 - 22| Q. And you're basing that on what?

10:30:02 - 23| A. Discussions that we had when the

10:30:04 - 24| deal was explained to us and reviewing the

10:30:10 - 25| agreement. It was actually a merger agreement

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10:48:25 - 2| Operation in '95 you remained on with the UNIX

10:48:28 - 3| business as a Santa Cruz employee performing

10:48:31 - 4| substantially the same work as at Novell, is

10:48:33 - 5| that correct?

10:48:33 - 6| A. Yes.

10:48:34 - 7| Q. Your title looks like it changed

10:48:35 - 8| to manager of law and corporate affairs, is that

10:48:38 - 9| correct?

10:48:38 - 10| A. Yes.

10:48:39 - 11| Q. What were your duties and

10:48:40 - 12| responsibilities?

10:48:41 - 13| A. I was a contract manager.

10:48:42 - 14| Q. Just different title?

10:48:43 - 15| A. Just different title. The

10:48:45 - 16| department was law and corporate affairs, so

10:48:48 - 17| they called us managers law and corporate

10:48:50 - 18| affairs.

10:48:54 - 19| Q. I'm going to ask you about some

10:48:55 - 20| questions about that sale between - - again,

10:48:58 - 21| we're looking at paragraph 7, Novell sold the

10:49:02 - 22| business to Santa Cruz Operations? You see that?

10:49:05 - 23| A. Yes.

10:49:06 - 24| Q. What was your involvement in the

10:49:08 - 25| sale?

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10:49:08 - 2| A. I was told I was going to be

10:49:10 - 3| getting new business cards.

10:49:11 - 4| Q. Again. Is it fair to say you

10:49:14 - 5| didn't have involvement in the sale?

10:49:16 - 6| A. No.

10:49:16 - 7| Q. You weren't consulted?

10:49:18 - 8| A. No.

10:49:18 - 9| Q. Did you offer any recommendations?

10:49:20 - 10| A. No.

10:49:21 - 11| Q. Anybody ask for your opinion about

10:49:22 - 12| the sale?

10:49:23 - 13| A. No.

10:49:25 - 14| Q. Beside your coworkers, I guess. I

10:49:30 - 15| sense the hesitancy there.

10:49:32 - 16| So do you recall any discussions

10:49:36 - 17| about the sale from Novell to Santa Cruz?

10:49:39 - 18| A. Yes.

10:49:40 - 19| Q. And why don't you tell me about

10:49:42 - 20| those specific conversations that you recall?

10:49:45 - 21| MR. STONE: I instruct you not

10:49:46 - 22| to answer to the extent that those

10:49:48 - 23| discussions were with counsel, but you

10:49:50 - 24| can answer other than that.

10:49:54 -25| A. Most of my discussions were

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10:58:09 - 2| use that technology.

10:58:13 - 3| Q. Did Novell purport to retain any

10:58:18 - 4| of the other assets, the UNIX assets that you're

10:58:20 - 5| aware of?

10:58:23 - 6| A. The assets, not that I'm aware of.

10:58:26 - 7| Q. What about any part of the

10:58:26 - 8| business, the UNIX business?

10:58:31 - 9| MR. STONE: Can I hear that

10:58:33 - 10| question?

10:58:37 - 11| (Record read.)

10:58:38 - 12| MR. STONE: Can I hear the

10:58:39 - 13| question before that?

10:58:55 - 14| (Record read.)

10:58:56 - 15| MR. STONE: I object to form.

10:58:57 - 16| You can answer.

10:59:02 - 17| A. What's the question on the table?

10:59:07 - 18| Q. Are you aware of Novell, did they

10:59:10 - 19| retain any of the part of the business, the UNIX

10:59:14 - 20| business?

10:59:18 - 21| A. Novell retained a right to certain

10:59:23 - 22| royalty payments that were for the System V

10:59:26 - 23| product.

10:59:27 - 24| Q. Is that part of the business?

10:59:29 - 25| MR. STONE: Object to form.

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10:59:30 - 2| Also object to the extent that it calls for

10:59:32 - 3| a legal conclusion, but you can

10:59:34 - 4| answer, if you know.

10:59:36 - 5| A. It's payment for sublicensed

10:59:39 - 6| products that are based on UNIX System V.

10:59:43 - 7| Q. Would you consider that any part

10:59:45 - 8| of the business though?

10:59:47 - 9| MR. STONE: Same objection.

10:59:51 - 10| A. Personally, I would consider that

10:59:52 - 11| part of the business.

10:59:57 - 12| Q. What else, did they retain any

11:00:00 - 13| other part of the business that you're aware of,

11:00:01 - 14| any of the intellectual property, any of the

11:00:06 - 15| rights?

11:00:07 - 16| A. No.

11:00:16 - 17| Q. Not that you're aware of?

11:00:16 - 18| A. Not that I'm aware of.

11:00:16 - 19| Q. Again, what are you basing your

11:00:16 - 20| knowledge on as it pertains to those questions I

11:00:16 - 21| just asked you, just recently asked you?

11:00:18 - 22| A. Discussions when we were told

11:00:19 - 23| about the sale, discussions with people from

11:00:23 - 24| Novell and people from Santa Cruz and the

11:00:27 - 25| agreements and amendments.

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11:21:25 - 2| substantially the same work as at Santa Cruz, is

11:21:28 - 3| that correct?

11:21:28 - 4| A. Yes.

11:21:38 - 5| Q. A few questions about that. What

11:21:40 - 6| was your role in the sale of the UNIX business

11:21:43 - 7| from Santa Cruz to Caldera?

11:21:46 - 8| A. Was told I'd be getting new

11:21:48 - 9| business cards.

11:21:49 - 10| Q. Are you keeping all these old

11:21:51 - 11| business cards?

11:21:51 - 12| A. My mother is.

11:21:55 - 13| Q. Were you consulted?

11:21:56 - 14| A. No.

11:21:57 - 15| Q. Any involvement then?

11:21:58 - 16| A. No.

11:22:00 - 17| Q. Asked for your recommendations?

11:22:02 - 18| A. No.

11:22:03 - 19| Q. Asked for your opinion about it?

11:22:05 - 20| A. No.

11:22:09 - 21| Q. What was your reaction to the sale

11:22:10 - 22| from Novell - - let's back up, from Novell to

11:22:14 - 23| Santa Cruz first?

11:22:17 - 24| A. My reaction was let's see what

11:22:21 - 25| happens. It's happened before.

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11:22:23 - 2| Q. Yeah. And how about from Santa

11:22:25 - 3| Cruz to Caldera then?

11:22:29 - 4| A. See what happens.

11:22:30 - 5| Q. Kind of roll with the punches

11:22:32 - 6| then?

11:22:32 - 7| A. I'm flexible.

11:22:34 - 8| Q. Sounds like it.

11:22:39 - 9| When were you informed about the

11:22:41 - 10| sale from Santa Cruz to Caldera?

11:22:46 - 11| A. I don't remember the - - it would

11:22:47 - 12| have been about the time that they made the

11:22:49 - 13| announcement, they gathered the employees and

11:22:51 - 14| told them what was going on.

11:22:53 - 15| Q. Did you review any contracts or

11:22:54 - 16| any agreements dealing with the sale prior to

11:22:57 - 17| it, prior to is happening?

11:22:59 - 18| A. No.

11:23:01 - 19| Q. How about at Novell, when Novell

11:23:02 - 20| sold it to Santa Cruz, did you review any

11:23:05 - 21| contracts dealing with the sale of the UNIX

11:23:08 - 22| business prior to it happening?

11:23:09 - 23| A. No.

11:23:12 - 24| Q. What's your understanding of what

11:23:13 - 25| was sold from Santa Cruz to Caldera?

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