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by: ColonelZen	IP: 181.27	rated: 0-0	posted: 2007-07-14 13:11:50
On IV it has been speculated that Steve Sabbath very well might be the linchpin to why there was a long held misconception that Santa Cruz received the SysV copyrights from Novell. He was the executive between the lawyers and the management during the Novell/Santa Cruz negotiations and explicitly identified by Allison Almadia as the person with whom she discussed the details of drafting APA Amendment 2. The speculation is that he "spun" the amendment within Santa Cruz in the best possible light of "his" accomplishments such that many other execs and BOD in Santa Cruz may actually have believed that they did receive them. From the hazy details we've seen of those negotiations I can't see any other person involved who could have so widely promulgated such a belief, and no one with as much motive to do so.     If that is so, the SCOX cases must be a nightmare for him. His spin is unraveling in documents filed with the courts with accompanying documentation and being discussed all over the internet. If he personally signed binding documents as an executive for either Santa Cruz or SCOX alleging SysV ownership for Santa Cruz or SCOX as fact, he not only has enormous "face" at risk, put personal financial and possibly legal liability as well.     HERE is a person with potentially as much on the line as Darl. And it's much more personal since he was *personally* involved with the negotiation which is now core to the SCOX cases. He has no "I was told", or "I believed" out.     In trying to connect the dots to biff I thought Mr. Sabbath worth a little googling.     He's kept a fairly low profile, but he did follow Santa Cruz into Caldera and now SCOX as a senior VP.     And as recently as June of this year he was identified as the goto guy for SCOX for particular legal issues: http://www.cdms-inc.com/sco.html     Now I'm not saying Sabbath is biff. At this point we can be sure that the backinfullforce account on Yahoo is or has been shared by more than one individual; whether Sabbath was ever one of them, I cannot say. But it is interesting that there exists a real, identifiable person in the game with so much personal interest at stake who is otherwise not widely discussed. As mentioned, his "interest" is deeper and spans a much greater time than either Darl or Ralph. And it is *still* contemporary interest. In the likely timeframe of any criminal prosecutions his current executive status leaves him within the statute of limitations.     -- TWZ