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Exhibit E: SCO's letter to IBM | 21 comments (17 topical, 4 editorial, 2 hidden)

Re: Exhibit E: SCO's letter to IBM (3.80 / 10) (#7)
by Potential Recruit on Sun Dec 19th, 2004 at 06:15:12 EST

This exception basically says that if any other party lets the Unix trade secrets become known, then IBM is no longer obliged to still maintain any confidentiality.

Unix "trade secrets" have for a long, long time not secret at all. The is Unix 32V released to the public, Unix itself has been licensed out to over 30,000 licensees, Unix has benn taught at many universities, there are countless books on Unix methods and concepts, there is BSD, Minix, GNU Hurd and many, many other work-alike variants out there with source code freely and publically available.

There are no remaining trade secrets in Unix. SCO's court documents themselves admit as much.

According to McBrides own words in this letter, SCO has no complaint at all.

Exhibit E: SCO's letter to IBM | 21 comments (17 topical, 4 editorial, 2 hidden)

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