Linux doesn't have IP roots.

- Darl Mcbride

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

- Darl Mcbride

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

- Darl Mcbride

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

- Darl Mcbride

When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we dire…

- Darl Mcbride

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public postu…

- Darl Mcbride

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

- Darl Mcbride

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

- Darl Mcbride

I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that t…

- Darl Mcbride