As a publicly traded company, SCO has a fiduciary responsibility
to protect our intellectual property and pursue legal recourse if
it has been infringed. SCO’s intellectual property is being found
in Linux. As a company, we have been forthright with Linux end
users to help them understand the gravity of these intellectual
property violations. On November 18, SCO announced that it had
expanded its relationship with David Boies of Boies, Schiller and
Flexner to represent SCO in end user lawsuits, which the company
indicated would begin taking place by the middle of February
2004.
The actions of these vendors today doesn’t change the fact that
SCO’s intellectual property is being found in Linux. Commercial end
users of Linux that continue to use SCO’s intellectual property
without authorization are in violation of SCO’s copyrights. SCO
continues to publicly show evidence of this infringement. We invite
interested parties to view some of this evidence for themselves at
www.sco.com/scosource.
“If vendors feel so confident with the intellectual property
foundation under their massive contributions into Linux, then they
should put their money where their mouth is and protect end users
with true vendor-based indemnification,” said Darl McBride,
president and CEO, The SCO Group, Inc.