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Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)

Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 13, 2003 0:57 UTC (Sun) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
Parent article: Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)

Back in May, pyellman thought that Sun might have been in league with SCO. (http://lwn.net/Articles/32108/).

This will not make Sun any friends in the IT world. SCO has the freedom to make enemies because they are dieing, but Sun has to think about the long term.

Sun is a funny company because they reverse their Linux strategy every other week. In Febuary, McNealy was donning a penguin suit. A couple months later they give millions of dollars to SCO and send out nasty anti-Linux press releases. I bet they already regret that. By next fall, they will be gung-ho about Linux again.

Anyway, I can't complain. So long as Sun keeps up their Gnome and OpenOffice.org work that's what counts in the long run.


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