On Friday May 23 2003 6:14 am, Paul Ketelaar wrote:
I am an Aussie so put up with the language.
Bugger me I know why M$ is so interested in licensing SCO's aged and one might say primitive UNIX.
They have the most to lose. I think all of you that know UNIX and Linux appreciate the fact that M$ prime product, any thing based on the NT kernel, is actually a UNIX like OS. In fact the NT kernel and related libraries are based on a UNIX kernel, namely VMS.
More accurately, PRIMAS, which DEC never thought was good enough to replace VMS.
Now I reckon that if there is a true IP issue inlvolved in this swamp full of crocs. SCO is most probably going to shaft M$ for using lines of its so-called IP in the NT kernel, here they can make big dollars. They will never beat Linux, SCO has only a few hundred slaves (developers - SCO most probably pays them the same) working for them and Linux has a team of developers that numbers in the 10Ks that get payed little or nothing compared with their output.
Therefore if SCO wants to jump in the billabong with the real crocs, the only place they will find themselves is under the biggest snag, saved up for a snack later.
Yes.......call the "biggest snag" IBM. :)
How do you all feel about this.
SCO could have really made some good products, but it has lost a feeling for present enviroment. SCO! get out of your comfort zone and/or severe misconception suffering and have a look around instead of lying doggo under a tree.
It's too late. SCO is dead, and doesn't know it yet. Fred -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!