20 Sep
2007
20 Sep
'07
9:11 p.m.
On 9/20/07, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
but they do have a microsoft linux; it's called "Interix" and it is now a free download, called "Microsoft Services for Unix"
That's not an OS, is it?
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Jon Pruente wrote:
MS used ot have Xenix, which ended up in the hands of SCO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix Who knows what contracts or licenses they had in that deal,
Pretty sure I read somewhere that Microsoft agreed to stay out of that particular OS market.
but with SCO going bye-bye, it would quite probably free MS from any obligations to SCO for any actual UNIX/Linux release.
Exactly what I'm saying