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Take that SCO you Mother Fu.........
jrich4:
In the book UNIX for Dummies there is a section on what Unix is and how it came about and different Unix variations. In this section it says that Microsoft sold their version of Unix(Xenix) to Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). It also says soething to the effect that Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was started from venture capital from Microsoft.
This is a direct quote about Xenix that I found on the web.
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In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the name Xenix. Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed the software to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then provided a finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other customers.
SCO introduced its first version of Xenix named SCO Xenix System V for the Intel 8086 and 8088 in 1983. Today SCO Xenix is one of the more commonly used and found versions of Xenix.
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Here is another quote taken from the web.
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In 1979, brothers Doug and Larry Michels founded the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) as a UNIX porting and consulting company using venture capital from Microsoft, which handed over all further development of Microsoft XENIX to SCO.
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gump420:
So, now, after basically bringing SCO into existence out of nothing, M$ is using SCO as a pawn in their smear campaign. In the end, M$ will likely gain a fraction more market and only be able to hold it for a few years at max, and SCO will likely disappear.
kibawarior:
sco are a bunch of pricks they will surely go bankrupt
M51DPS:
Now SCO has against them all of the primary colors. Theres Red Hat, IBM or Big Blue, and SuSE whose main color is green. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?
[ August 08, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]
Stilly:
but green isn't a prmary color, its red blue and yellow
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