Groklaw: IBM’s Greatest Hits–Ransom Love’s Declaration, Ex. 221

“Love was the CEO of Caldera prior to Darl McBride. And he tells
the court about Caldera when it was a Linux company, about the
Santa Cruz assets acquisition, a bit about Novell, where he worked
before starting Caldera and worked on the Corsair project, and
about his view of SCO’s claims regarding header files. He didn’t
have to do this declaration. It’s voluntary, unlike a deposition,
and that speaks volumes right there.

“He thrusts a dagger right into the heart of SCO’s claims. I see
no way to recover from his declaration, because there is no one who
can convincingly contradict. He was the CEO, the co-founder of the
company to boot. Who can possibly know more than he does about the
history of the company, what it did with Linux, its striving for
POSIX compliance, and particularly whether the company knew about
the header files being in its own distribution of Linux that SCO
claims are infringed? Even if SCO were able to trot out Bryan
Sparks, the other co-founder, Sparks was not CEO at the time of the
Santa Cruz acquisition. There is no one but Love to testify at this
level…”

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