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Statement of Opposition to SCO and Support for Intellectual Property | |||
On August 14, 2003 in a conference call with reporters and financial
analysts, SCO CEO and President Darl McBride stated that the
"silent majority" of the IT industry is behind SCO in their present
legal battle. It is unfortunate that some have given credence to SCO's
sweeping claims of ownership for which they refuse to offer
substantiation, and it is presumptuous that SCO now claims ownership
of the support of the majority of companies in the IT industry merely
because of their silence. In an effort to prevent SCO from further
mis-leading others, we hereby state our opposition to SCO's recent
actions and we encourage other companies who have not spoken publicly
on the issue to do the same. We support the right of authors and their employers to use intellectual property laws to encourage cultivation of innovative works and to protect those works. We support the right of entities to enter into reasonable contracts with each other for the use of said intellectual property and to enforce those contracts through the due process of the law. While SCO claims to be fighting for these rights which we do support, they are in actuality attempting to inflict grave damage upon these rights. While it is possible that SCO might have a legitimate claim in their contractual dispute with IBM (though there is no way to know this because SCO refuses to release specifics), one legitimate claim would easily be overshadowed by the contempt and hostility that SCO has shown to the intellectual property of others and by SCO's staunch refusal to specify exactly what intellectual property has been misappropriated so that it can be removed and SCO's damages minimized. It is with incredible irony that SCO claims to be fighting for upholding the strength of intellectual property in general when in fact they have shown, and continue to show, complete disregard for the intellectual property of others and are seeking to undermine the ability of authors and companies to distribute their own intellectual property as they see fit. SCO is fighting against intellectual property protection in the following ways:
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