Title: | Microsoft Mum on Unix Licensing Move |
URL: | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1095352,00.asp |
author: | Peter Galli |
date: | 2003-05-19 |
aid: | 337 |
"We have not seen any specific code referenced that we are supposed to be in violation of. We are certain we are not in violation of any intellectual property, and so this is a non-issue until we can see some of that," Day said. -- Leigh Day, 2003-05-19
"We feel pretty comfortable with the [UnitedLinux] agreement we have with SCO," said Joe Eckert, a spokesman for SuSE Linux AG, in New York. "We have yet to hear from SCO about exactly what these issues might be."-- Joe Eckert, 2003-05-19
"There are many companies in the IT industry who acknowledge and respect the intellectual property of software. With this announcement, Microsoft is clearly showing the importance of maintaining compatibility with Unix and Microsoft's software solutions through their software licensing. This important step will better help their customers implement Unix and Windows solutions," he said.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-19
"We are sensitive of the fact we need to make some of this information available to make our case," he said last week.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-19
the company had identified "significant source code copying issues within Linux, some of which we believe comes from IBM but many others of which come from third parties. All of these are very troubling to us," Sontag said.-- Chris Sontag, 2003-05-19