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Chris Sontag's Trial Testimony in SCO v. Novell (April 29 and 30, 2008)

By Pamela Jones et al.

I thought it would be fun to look at Chris Sontag's testimony as a whole, instead of just covering the SCO v. Novell trial according to the particular day. Sontag was called by Novell on the first day, April 29, 2008. They didn't finish so he was back on the stand on the 30th, so I've cobbled together the relevant sections from the two day's transcripts to show you the complete performance, stage front and center.

Two things stand out from his testimony: the attempt to assert that UnixWare and Unix are the same thing, which contradicts what SCOfolks used to say, not to mention reality, and his description of the Sun 2003 agreement.

Full post as published by Groklaw on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).