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Bye Bye SCO

Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
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If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
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SCO = Santa Cruz operation

They used to be a unix vendor, but then got bought up by morons who thought suing people was a good way to make money.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
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If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
Click to expand...

They used to be SCO selling Unix. They aquired Caldera, IIRC.
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I guess that was before my time...

I heard about them after 1996 (which is when I started getting in linux)

So I first heard of them as caldera.

You might be completely right. I won't argue.
 
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
Click to expand...

If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
Click to expand...
SCO = Santa Cruz operation

They used to be a unix vendor, but then got bought up by morons who thought suing people was a good way to make money.
Click to expand...

So they got bought out by Microsoft? That WOULD explain a lot 😉
 
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
Click to expand...

If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
Click to expand...
SCO = Santa Cruz operation

They used to be a unix vendor, but then got bought up by morons who thought suing people was a good way to make money.
Click to expand...

So they got bought out by Microsoft? That WOULD explain a lot 😉
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Paid off, not bought out.
 
it's interesting that the professor was paid $550 an hour as a counsel for IBM.

I am really amazed by how much you can be paid as a consultant. $550 an hour. just wow.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
Click to expand...

If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
Click to expand...
SCO = Santa Cruz operation

They used to be a unix vendor, but then got bought up by morons who thought suing people was a good way to make money.
Click to expand...

So they got bought out by Microsoft? That WOULD explain a lot 😉
Click to expand...

Paid off, not bought out.
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Oh that I knew 🙂 I was just using play on words with Heisenberg
 
Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
people are still talking about this? should have been common knowledge for a while now 😛
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Common knowledge yes, official no.

For example, we knew for YEARS (decades?) that Microsoft had formed a monopoly but it wasn't till a few years ago it became official
 
Amazing how intertwined some events are.

Caldera had bought PC-DOS (or was it Dr DOS) and was carrying on a lawsuit against M$.
The charge was that Windows (3.0, 3.1, 3.11WFW for you younger folks) would look to see if it was sitting on top of MS-DOS or a different DOS. If it was installed on a non-M$ DOS, there were some built loops to slow Windows down and some features would not work right, to encourage people to not use a competing DOS. Caldera had a section on their website giving updates about the suit for a couple of years. Never heard what the resolution was.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: z0mb13
what is SCO again?
Click to expand...

If this is actually a serious question....

They used to be Caldera selling a linux distro.
Click to expand...

They used to be SCO selling Unix. They aquired Caldera, IIRC.
Click to expand...

Old SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) = Trantella, they sold their Unix business to The SCO Group, Inc. (formerly Caldera), currently called SCO commonly but they are NOT the same company. This sale of assets is what voided the no competition clause with Novell and allowed Novell to renter the Unix business.
 
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