SCO's Chris Sontag talks to vnunet.com, May 17, 2003

... So presumably, if you were to win the lawsuit, you could actually destroy the Linux industry?

Certainly our intention is not to destroy anything. Our intention is to enforce and get value for our intellectual property. Just as anyone who has intellectual property is going to want to protect their property.

Extended Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. this week announced plans to bundle ESI's data synchronization software into Motorola's upcoming Linux-powered phone.

The Linux operating system has been used by computer die-hard operators since the very early 1990's. Now, more than a decade later, many computer network administrators are beginning to view the open source, or public, software as a viable alternative to products like Microsoft's Windows.

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