Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:10:20 -0700
From: Al Petrofsky <al@petrofsky.org>
To: Tonje Sund <info@trolltech.com>
Subject: Re: [Issue N52125]  Ralph Yarro's directorship of TrollTech

Dear Mr. Sund,

Thank you for confirming that Ralph Yarro serves on TrollTech's board
and that Trolltech does not own any shares of SCO Group or Canopy Group.

I have one other simple question I forgot to ask: How many directors
are on the board?

You also wrote:

> We would like to point out that Trolltech does not support The SCO
> Group's current legal actions against IBM and others.

I am glad to hear that Trolltech does not currently support SCO's
actions.  

I am disappointed to hear that Trolltech's ownership currently does
support Yarro's directorship.

> As Trolltech is not a publicly listed company, we have a policy not
> to disclose further details regarding ownership and the Board of
> Directors.

I understand that not being publicly listed allows you to have such a
policy, but I don't see any reason to believe such a policy is
necessarily wise.

Earlier this year, Altiris, another corporation of which Canopy is a
minority owner, removed Yarro from its board:

  Gregory S. Butterfield has served as our President and Chief
  Executive Officer since February 2000, as a director since May 2000
  and as our Chairman of the Board since April 2004.

    -- From Altiris's 2004-04-29 SEC form 10-K/A (which also gives a
         list of all the directors, with Yarro not listed)
       http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1139650/000119312504074136/d10ka.htm

  Ralph J. Yarro, III, Chairman and Director

    -- From Altiris's 2004-03-30 SEC form S-8
       http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1139650/000119312504053769/ds8.htm

As David Whelan reported in Forbes magazine:

  All in all, Butterfield says, the SCO affiliation is "not positive"
  and "a nuisance." So Butterfield is quietly trying what lots of
  other people would love to do--get away from his family. He did a
  stock offering that diluted Canopy's share in the company to 8% from
  18%. Then in April Altiris dumped its chairman, Ralph Yarro, who
  happens to be head of both Canopy and SCO, and another Canopy
  director.

  Butterfield insists he's managed to mollify customers who moan
  about SCO.

    -- http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0621/064_print.html

If Trolltech's ownership is unable to remove Yarro, then it might help
alleviate concerns if you could answer the other questions I asked, or
otherwise disclose more details about why, despite the ownership being
powerless to effect this simple change, it does nevertheless have
sufficient power to continue to steer the corporation in a direction
other than the one Caldera took.


Yours truly,

Al Petrofsky