On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:14:15PM +1000, 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. Keep in mind that while OpenServer may be "aged and primitive" that is not the case for UnixWare/SVR6. : 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. Actually VMS and UNIX are two totally separate beasts. Though I do believe that OpenVMS may be POSIX compliant. What NT and VMS share is David Cutler, who designed both OS's. Parts of the NT architecture were originally co-developed by Microsoft and DEC. That's also part of the reason that the original releases of NT ran on both the x86 (lovingly referred to as i386 back then) and axp (alpha) platforms. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!