MozillaQuest.com: Is SCO NDA Sideshow Setting a Trap for Analysts and Linux Developers?

“However, in an attempt to dodge around the mounting demands and
pressure to publicly show where in Linux there is SCO-owned Unix
code, SCO-Caldera and McBride are inviting people to look at the
supposed SCO-owned Unix code in Linux–as long as they play by
SCO’s rules to-wit, sign a confidentiality agreement or NDA
(non-disclosure agreement) and make a pilgrimage to SCO-Caldera’s
Utah headquarters. There are several problems with McBride’s
proposal to show the allegedly tainted code only under
confidentiality agreements or NDAs.

“1). By requiring code observers to sign NDAs, SCO-Caldera can
control what those code-observers reveal to the public. It’s a
suspect and tainted process from the get-go. That would be
analogous to Saddam Hussein having required pre-war UN inspectors
to sign agreements not to report on their findings. What use are
inspectors, or in this case code observers, if they are not
completely free to report on their observations–including any
tainted code?

“2). So far, SCO-Caldera’s actual legal activities have focused
on breach of contract and violation of confidentiality issues, the
Caldera v IBM lawsuit. Anyone entering into a SCO-Caldera NDA is
putting themselves in (legal) harm’s way…”

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