From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jss@subatomix.com (Jeffrey Sharp) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:23:36 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM? In-Reply-To: <20030310032828.GG90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20030310012147.GB94647@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3E6BF97E.773E2F62@earthlink.net> <20030310032828.GG90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <501177473.20030310142336@subatomix.com> > Your "signed, dated, and numbered license" states that Ancient UNIX > contains trade secret information. This probably all comes down to whether or not IBM breached any NDAs it had with SCO. Trade secrets in and of themselves IIRC do not have any statutory protection in the United States. Once they're leaked, they aren't secrets any more. IANAL, TINLA. -- Jeffrey Sharp