hitest Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 SCO, a now bankrupt Unix company sued IBM several years ago for billions claiming that proprietary Unix code was embedded in IBM's Linux. As it turns out SCO was full of it.The final judgment has occurred. Bye-bye SCO. SCO owes big coin to Novell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isteve Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 If I remember Microsoft was financing the SCO lawsuit in hopes to slow the adoption of Linux or at least collect a license fee. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted November 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 If I remember Microsoft was financing the SCO lawsuit in hopes to slow the adoption of Linux or at least collect a license fee.Yeah, I read that as well. Also, MS entered into a deal with Novell which would protect Novell customers from litigation. Rather ironic that Novell actually owned the Unix copywrite and not SCO. Novell finishes off SCO. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 if you Read the MS deal with Novell you will see that Microsoft purchased more protection to its customers over UNIX parts in windows than they gave Novell for protections over windows stuff in Linux. But Microsoft Marketing got to announce the Deal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted November 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 if you Read the MS deal with Novell you will see that Microsoft purchased more protection to its customers over UNIX parts in windows than they gave Novell for protections over windows stuff in Linux. But Microsoft Marketing got to announce the Deal.Heh, that doesn't surprise me at all. MS always puts the interests of MS first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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