Open Source Initiative: SCO vs. IBM--OSI Position Paper (Draft) | Linux Today

Open Source Initiative: SCO vs. IBM–OSI Position Paper (Draft)

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 20, 2003

“This position paper is written in specific response to SCO’s
complaint filed on the 7th of March 2003 in the Third Judicial
District of Salt Lake County, State of Utah.

“It is not within OSI’s competence or knowledge to address the
specifics of the business relationship between SCO and IBM, or the
terms of their contract. It is, however, very much within our
competence to observe that SCO’s complaint depends critically on
certain historical and technical assertions which are materially
false and (apparently quite intentionally) misleading.

“Unlike SCO’s complaint, we have provided direct hyperlinks to
browseable versions of all the sources which back our facts…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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