Computing: Interview: SCO Chief Darl McBride Part 1

“You’ve filed your injunction against IBM. When is the
hearing due?

“There’s not a date set currently. The next action is really
discovery, where we get a chance to go in and take a look at what
has been going on at IBM.

“It has said publicly that it moved, and is moving, key parts of
AIX, and in fact is willing to move all of AIX over into Linux.

“The problem with that statement and those actions is that SCO
has a very strong contract in place with our software source code
licensing agreement that has not allowed IBM to do that. So we are
protecting those licence and contract rights.

“We went to the 100 days of trying to resolve the issues. So in
effect we pulled its contract and it doesn’t have any authorisation
to now use the software…”

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