How, in practice, could IBM return all copies of AIX?
I suppose the simple requirement is ‘to return or destroy’. We haven’t made that language up. That was in the contract that we picked up that AT&T and IBM had agreed to. So I guess you simply take the copies of AIX that are out there and send them back to us, or you destroy them and give us notice of the date of destruction. It calls for that in the contract to certify that destruction has taken place. Over the years, either SCO or its predecessors have put vendors on notice and those vendors stepped back in line very quickly, because everybody saw that going through this process and having your contract terminated was not a good thing. So we really are in unprecedented waters. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Until the court case has been heard there is nothing you can do to enforce this, is there? We have other rights under the contract that we are looking at. For example, we can audit IBM customers. SCO has audit rights on its customers. The reality is that we are goi
