Say "Bye-Bye SCO!"

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Thu Sep 20 16:11:50 CDT 2007


On 9/20/07, David Nicol <davidnicol at 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


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